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| | Key-Schedule Cryptanalysis of DEAL |
 | | This attack requires 233 related key queries, the same $3$ plaintexts encrypted under each key, and may be implemented with a variety of time-memory tradeoffs; Given $3 x 269 bytes of memory, the attack requires 2113 DES encryptions, and given $3 x 245 bytes of memory, the attack requires 2137 DES encryptions. |
 | | DEAL is a six- or eight-round Luby-Rackoff cipher that uses DES as its round function, with allowed key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits. |
 | | First, we discuss the existence of equivalent keys for all three key lengths; pairs of equivalent keys in DEAL-128 require about 264 DES encryptions to find, while equivalent keys in DEAL-192 and DEAL-256 require only six or eight DES encryptions to find. |
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