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The Rebound Attack and Subspace Distinguishers: Application to Whirlpool

Authors:
Mario Lamberger
Florian Mendel
Christian Rechberger
Vincent Rijmen
Martin Schläffer
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/198
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Abstract: We introduce the rebound attack as a variant of differential cryptanalysis on hash functions and apply it to the hash function Whirlpool, standardized by ISO/IEC. We give attacks on reduced variants of the Whirlpool hash function and the Whirlpool compression function. Next, we introduce the subspace problems as generalizations of near-collision resistance. Finally, we present distinguishers based on the rebound attack, that apply to the full compression function of Whirlpool and the underlying block cipher $W$.
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@misc{eprint-2010-23099,
  title={The Rebound Attack and Subspace Distinguishers: Application to Whirlpool},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={secret-key cryptography / hash functions, cryptanalysis, near-collision, distinguisher},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/198},
  note={Submitted to a journal mario.lamberger@iaik.tugraz.at 14708 received 9 Apr 2010},
  author={Mario Lamberger and Florian Mendel and Christian Rechberger and Vincent Rijmen and Martin Schläffer},
  year=2010
}