Schneier on Security

Cryptanalysis of Magenta

E. Biham, A. Biryukov, N. Ferguson, L. Knudsen, B. Schneier, and A. Shamir

Second AES Candidate Conference, April 1999.

ABSTRACT: Magenta is an encryption algorithm submitted for AES by Deutsche Telekom AG. In this note we cryptanalyze Magenta, and any algorithm of the same structure and key schedule.

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Categories: Algorithm Analyses