Lecture Notes for the Ph.D. course on "Methods of Cryptanalysis", 2003

---

• Lecture 1  "Introduction to Cryptanalysis. Classical Ciphers."
• Lecture 2  "Cryptanalysis of Enigma"
• Lecture 3  "Shannon's ideas of cipher design. DES."
• Lecture 4   "Even-Mansour security proof.  Differential Cryptanalysis"
• Lecture 5   "Differential Cryptanalysis (continued)"
• Lecture 6   "Security proof for DESX.  On the size of the group generated by DES."
• Lecture 7   "Linear Cryptanalysis. Matsui's best approximation search algorithm".
• Lecture 8   "Multiset attack on arbitrary 3-round SPN. Rijndael. Square attack on Rijndael".
• Lecture 9   "Gilbert-Minier attack on Rijndael.  Boomerang attacks."
• Lecture 10 "Impossible differentials. Yoyo-game. Cryptanalysis of Skipjack."

Here are the lecture notes of Fast-Correlation attacks  and the slides of the powerpoint presentation of the informal seminar on the Fast-Correlation attacks given by An Braeken on 03.01.2003 .

---

Last modified  29.05.2003