1991 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Statistical Attack of the FEAL-8 Cryptosystem
Authors : Henri Gilbert, Guy Chassé
Published in: Advances in Cryptology-CRYPT0’ 90
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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This paper presents a chosen plaintext cryptanalysis of the FEAL-8 cryptosystem. The attack requires the ciphertext corresponding to approximately 10000 pairs of 64 bit plaintext blocks. The difference (bitwise xor) between the two blocks of each pair is equal to an appropriately selected constant. We first state that some differential statistics for intermediate values of the data randomizer are non uniform and independent of the encryption key. We then show that these statistics can be used to compute gradually the expanded key of the data randomizer.