International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Recent observations on polynomial structures of AES-like round functions are analysed in this note. We present computational evidence that input/output bits of AES-like 2-round transform up to $40$-bit, constructed with $8$-bit AES S-boxes, do not satisfy any relations of degree $3$. So it is very unlikely that actual AES 2-round transform admits any relations of degree $\leq 3$.