Key recovery attack on ANSI X9.19 retail MAC

15 August 1996

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 32 (17) , 1568-1569
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19961045

Abstract

The authors present a new divide and conquer key recovery attack on the retail MAC based on DES, which is a widely used algorithm to compute a message authentication code (MAC). The attack requires 2^32.5 known text-MAC pairs and 3·2⁵⁶ off-line computations to find the 112 bit key.

Keywords

MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODE
ANSI X9.19 RETAIL MAC
DES ENCRYPTION
DIVIDE/CONQUER KEY RECOVERY ATTACK
KEY RECOVERY ATTACK

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