Re: loop-aes mathematical strength

Alon Bar-Lev <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:54:42 +0300

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Thank you!

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Jari Ruusu
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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