Cryptographic functions and design criteria for block ciphers.


Anne Canteaut

INRIA, projet CODES
BP 105
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France
Anne.Canteaut@inria.fr

In Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2001, number 2247 in LNCS, pages 1-16. Springer-Verlag, 2001. Invited talk.


Abstract

Most last-round attacks on iterated block ciphers provide some design criteria for the round function. Here, we focus on the links between the underlying properties. Most notably, we investigate the relations between the functions which oppose a high resistance to linear cryptanalysis and to differential cryptanalysis.