Everything about Differential-linear attack

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Differential-linear attackA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Differential-linear attacks from new distinguishersInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Cryptography and network securityThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: DAPA: Differential Analysis aided Power Attack on (Non-) Linear Feedback Shift RegistersCited 8 times
5. Go sideways: Boomerang attackA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: COCONUT98A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• DAPA: Differential Analysis aided Power Attack on (Non-) Linear Feedback Shift Registers

  Siang Meng Sim, Dirmanto Jap, Shivam Bhasin · 2020 · IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems · 8 citations

• Securing IoT Devices against Differential-Linear (DL) Attack Used on Serpent Algorithm

  Khumbelo Muthavhine, Mbuyu Sumbwanyambe · 2022 · Future Internet · 1 citations

• Rotational Differential-Linear Attack on Chaskey

  Yuan Qin, Gaoli Wang, Guoyan Zhang · 2022 · Security and Communication Networks · 0 citations

• RESISTANCE ANALYSIS OF LOW-RESOURCE SYMMETRIC CIVERS TO DIFFERENTIAL-LINEAR ATTACK

  Dmytro Tsemma, Anton Smirnov, Dmytro Nepokrytov · 2026 · Terra security · 0 citations

• Quantum Differential‐Linear Key Recover Attack and its Application on Simon32/64 and Simeck32/64

  Chengdong Ma, Jie Guan, Tairong Shi · 2026 · Advanced Quantum Technologies · 0 citations

• Differential attack on nonlinear combined sequences

  Chao Li, Wenling Wang, Pengsong Hu · 2007 · Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in China · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Differential-linear attacks from new distinguishers

  Thierno Mamoudou Sabaly, Marine Minier · 2026 · Designs, Codes and Cryptography · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Cryptography and network securityWilliam Stallings · 2006
• Information Security and CryptologyChuan'gun Wu · 2012
• Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2012Xiaoyun Wang · 2012
• Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2013Thomas Johansson · 2013
• Cryptography and network securityWilliam Stallings · 2006
• Intelligent decision making systemsInternational Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (4th 2009 Hasselt, Belgium) · 2010

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