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Chosen Plaintext Attack
An attack in which the cryptanalyst has the capability to choose arbitrary plaintexts to encrypt and then studies the corresponding ciphertexts.
Known Plaintext Attack
When the attacker has access to both the plaintext and its encrypted version, and seeks to discover other plaintexts or the key.
Frequency Analysis
A technique that is based on how frequently certain letters appear in a language to break classical ciphers.
Differential Cryptanalysis
A method that studies how differences in input can affect the resultant difference at the output.
Dictionary Attack
An attack using a pre-arranged list of likely passwords or phrases, such as those found in a dictionary.
Integral Cryptanalysis
Targets block ciphers using sets of related plaintexts where certain properties are maintained across the plaintexts.
Impossible Differential Attack
A cryptanalysis technique aimed at block ciphers where the attacker finds a differential path that is impossible to exist under certain circumstances.
Cube Attack
An algebraic attack that assumes the cipher can be described by a low-degree polynomial and attempts to solve it.
Brute Force Attack
An exhaustive search that tries every possible combination to find the encryption key or decrypt a message.
Side-Channel Attack
Any attack based on information gained from the physical implementation of a cryptosystem, rather than brute force or theoretical weaknesses.
Boomerang Attack
A cryptanalysis attack that uses differential cryptanalysis twice like a boomerang to analyze the encryption algorithm.
Ciphertext-Only Attack
An attack where the attacker only has access to a collection of ciphertexts.
Power Analysis
A side-channel attack which involves monitoring the electrical power consumption of a cryptographic hardware device.
Algebraic Attack
A method that models cryptographic algorithms as a system of algebraic equations that can be solved to find the key.
Padding Oracle Attack
Exploits the way some implementations of cryptographic protocols reveal whether a message has been correctly padded.
Timing Attack
A type of side-channel attack where the attacker attempts to compromise a cryptosystem by analyzing the time taken to execute cryptographic algorithms.
XSL Attack
A type of attack on block ciphers that relies on solving systems of equations that are expected to be sparse in certain algebraic attacks.
Linear Cryptanalysis
A statistical attack on block ciphers, using linear approximations to describe the behavior of the cipher.
Fault Analysis
An attack that involves inducing errors in a cryptographic computation to gain insight into the algorithm or key.
Cold Boot Attack
An attack that exploits the data remanence property of DRAM and SRAM to retrieve data from a computer's memory after a cold reboot.
Birthday Attack
A type of attack on hash functions that exploits the mathematics behind the birthday problem in probability theory.
Meet-in-the-Middle Attack
An attack that exploits the use of multiple encryption layers, trying to find a common intermediate state from both ends.
Rubber Hose Cryptanalysis
A colloquial term for acquiring cryptographic secrets (such as encryption keys) through coercion or threats.
Mod n Cryptanalysis
An attack used primarily against RSA, exploiting the fact that for some messages, the RSA function can be iterated to find a cycle.
Biclique Attack
A type of cryptanalysis that extends the meet-in-the-middle attack with structures called bicliques to solve certain block ciphers.
Related-Key Attack
An advanced cryptanalysis technique in which the attacker analyzes the relationships between keys that are related in a known way.
Slide Attack
This attack exploits cipher weaknesses when they process repeated identical operations or transformations over the dataset.
Rainbow Table Attack
A time-memory trade-off attack using a precomputed table for reversing cryptographic hash functions.
Man-in-the-Middle Attack
An attack where the attacker intercepts and possibly alters the communication between two parties who believe they are directly communicating.
Time Memory Trade-Off
An attack that uses precomputed tables to reduce the time required to derive a key from its ciphertext.
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