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"text": "XORing different constants into the four s-boxes in such a cipher has exactly the same effect as XORing a single constant into each round function output.",
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"ref": "2007, Reinhard Wobst, “Life After DES: New Methods, New Attacks”, in Angelika Shafir, transl., Cryptology Unlocked, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, section 3 (IDEA: A Special-Class Algoritmh), subsection 5 (Cryptanalyzing IDEA), page 239:",
"text": "There are weak keys in the sense that their use by foisting chosen plaintexts can be proved, which could be interesting for chip cards with a ‘burnt-in key’. First of all, however, these keys can be easily avoided—one only needs to XOR all subkeys with the hexadecimal number 0x0dae—and second, the probability that such a key can be caught is 2⁻⁹⁶; that is about one out of 10²⁹ randomly selected keys (this number even has a name: 100 quadrilliards).",
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"glosses": [
"To perform the XOR function upon."
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"(transitive, computing) To perform the XOR function upon."
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"mathematics",
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"word": "⊻"
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