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Cryptanalysis of XXTEA

Authors:
Elias Yarrkov
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/254
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Abstract: XXTEA, or Corrected Block TEA, is a simple block cipher in Roger Needham and David Wheeler's TEA series of algorithms. We describe a chosen plaintext attack for XXTEA using about $2^{59}$ queries and negligible work.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2010-23155,
  title={Cryptanalysis of XXTEA},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={secret-key cryptography / block ciphers, differential cryptanalysis},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/254},
  note={ yarrkov@gmail.com 14732 received 3 May 2010},
  author={Elias Yarrkov},
  year=2010
}