Re: loop-aes mathematical strength

Jari Ruusu <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:22:44 +0300
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Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Where does the 2^64 magic comes from?

birthday paradox

2^(n/2)  

n=128, the data block size of AES

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