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The Mercy block cipher is examined, and a differential attack is shown. Using this differential, a method of distinguishing the cipher from a random permutation is given.
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Crowley, P., “Mercy: a fast large block cipher for disk sector encryption”, Proceedings of the Fast Software Encryption 2000, Springer-Verlag.
Wagner, D., “The boomerang attack”, Proceedings of the Fast Software Encryption 1999, Springer-Verlag.
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Fluhrer, S.R. (2002). Cryptanalysis of the Mercy Block Cipher. In: Matsui, M. (eds) Fast Software Encryption. FSE 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2355. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45473-X_3
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