## Efficient Algorithms for Computing Differential Properties of Addition

Helger Lipmaa and Shiho Moriai. Efficient Algorithms for Computing Differential Properties of Addition. In Mitsuru Matsui, editor, Fast Software Encryption: 8th International Workshop, FSE 2001, volume 2355 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 336--350, Yokohama, Japan, April 2--4, 2001. Springer, Heidelberg. ISBN 3-540-43869-6.

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Abstract:

In this paper we systematically study the differential properties of addition modulo 2n. We derive Θ(log n)-time algorithms for most of the properties, including differential probability of addition. We also present log-time algorithms for finding good differentials. Despite the apparent simplicity of modular addition, the best known algorithms required naive exhaustive computation. Our results represent a significant improvement over them. In the most extreme case, we present a complexity reduction from Ω(24n) to Θ(log n).

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