Dworkin, M.
and Perlner, R.
(2015),
Analysis of VAES3 (FF2), Cryptology ePrint Archive, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=917829, http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/306
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Analysis of VAES3 (FF2)
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) specified three methods for format-preserving encryption (FPE) in Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-38G, which was released for public comment in July, 2013. Each method was a mode of operation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). One of the three modes, VAES3, was specified under the name FF2 in the NIST draft. This note describes a theoretical chosen-plaintext attack that shows the security strength of FF2 is less than 128 bits.Citation
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Advanced Encryption Standard, FF2, format-preserving encryption, mode of operation, VAES3
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Created April 2, 2015, Updated February 19, 2017