Combined Differential, Linear and Related-Key Attacks on Block Ciphers and MAC Algorithms

Differential and linear attacks are the most widely used cryptanalytic tools to evaluate the security of symmetric-key cryptography. Since the introduction of differential and linear attacks in the early 1990's, various variants of these attacks have been proposed such as the truncated differential attack, the impossible differential attack, the square attack, the boomerang attack, the rectangle attack, the differential-linear attack, the multiple linear attack, the nonlinear attack and the bilinear attack. One of the other widely used cryptanalytic tools is the related-key attack. Unlike the differential and linear attacks, this attack is based on the assumption that the cryptanalyst can obtain plaintext and ciphertext pairs by using different, but related keys.