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Weak key

Known as: Flat keyspace, Linear keyspace, Linear key space 
In cryptography, a weak key is a key, which, used with a specific cipher, makes the cipher behave in some undesirable way. Weak keys usually… 
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Key management

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2017
2017
Impossible-Differential and Boomerang Cryptanalysis of Round-Reduced Kiasu-BC
Kiasu-BC is a tweakable block cipher proposed by Jean et al. at ASIACRYPT 2014 alongside their TWEAKEY framework. The cipher is… 
2015
2015
Attribute-Based Encryption Goes X.509
Key authentication as well as an intended recipient not having a key available are, among others, challenges that public key… 
2015
2015
Encryption and hash based security in Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to be the next big revolution of the World Wide Web. It has a very wide range of… 
2010
2010
KIDS - Keyed Intrusion Detection System
Since most current network attacks happen at the application layer, analysis of packet payload is necessary for their detection… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Cryptanalysis of a chaotic block cipher with external key and its improved version
2005
2005
New Attacks Against Reduced-Round Versions of IDEA
In this paper, we describe a sequence of simple, yet efficient chosen-plaintext (or chosen-ciphertext) attacks against reduced… 
2004
2004
Weak keys of graph cryptography
  • C. Prissette
  • Proceedings. International Conference on…
  • 2004
  • Corpus ID: 24298596
This paper presents two families of weak keys, which can be combined to build a family of very weak keys. The detection algorithm… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
New Weak-Key Classes of IDEA
This paper presents a large collection of new weak-key classes for the IDEA cipher. The classes presented in this paper contain… 
1999
1999
Improved Analysis of Some Simplified Variants of RC6
RC6 has been submitted as a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Two important features of RC6 that were absent… 
1993
1993
Block Ciphers Based on Modular Arithmetic
The block ciphers PES and IPES were originally designed with the ambition to become the successor of DES as a standard. In this… 
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