International Association
for Cryptologic Research

The Partial Sum Attack is one of the most powerful attacks developed in the last 15

years against reduced-round versions of AES. We introduce a slight improvement to

the basic attack which lowers the number of chosen plaintexts needed to successfully

mount it. Our version of the attack on 6-round AES can be carried out completely

in practice, as we demonstrate providing a full implementation. We also detail the

structure of our implementation, showing the performances we achieve.