logo
welcome
Ars Technica

Ars Technica

The sad, bizarre tale of hype fanning fears modern cryptography was slain

Ars Technica
Summary
Nutrition label

91% Informative

Present, GIFT64 , and RECTANGle are lightweight block ciphers designed for use in "constrained" environments.

All three are based on an SPN structure and are proposed academic designs.

Integral distinguishers are a type of large-scale optimization problem that, when solved, provides a powerful tool for breaking encryption schemes.

The main contribution in the September paper is the process the researchers used to find integral distinguishers.