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3 unusual facts about Nicolas Courtois


KeeLoq

Nicolas Courtois attacked KeeLoq using sliding and algebraic methods.

VEST

The authors say that VEST security margins are inline with the guidelines proposed by Lars Knudsen in the paper "Some thoughts on the AES process" and the more conservative guidelines recently proposed by Nicolas Courtois in the paper “Cryptanalysis of Sfinks”.

XSL attack

The attack was first published in 2002 by researchers Nicolas Courtois and Josef Pieprzyk.



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