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Distinguishing attack

In cryptography, a distinguishing attack is any form of cryptanalysis on data encrypted by a cipher that allows an attacker to distinguish the encrypted data from random data. Modern symmetric-key ciphers are specifically designed to be immune to such an attack. In other words, modern encryption schemes are pseudorandom permutations and are designed to…

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Distinguishing attack → Adi Shamir, Bart Preneel, Classic, COSIC, In, Itsik Mantin, RC4, Significantly, Souradyuti Paul, XOR

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RC4 might be one that determines whether a given stream of bytes is random or generated by RC4 with an unknown keyinstance ofa distinguishing attack on a stream cipher0.80text
Distinguishing attackrelated to ExamplesClassic0.60section
Distinguishing attackrelated to ExamplesItsik Mantin0.60section
Distinguishing attackrelated to ExamplesAdi Shamir0.60section
Distinguishing attackrelated to ExamplesRC40.60section
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Distinguishing attackrelated to ExamplesSouradyuti Paul0.60section
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Distinguishing attackrelated to ExamplesCOSIC0.60section
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