\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 01302839} \itemau{Biryukov, Alex; Kushilevitz, Eyal} \itemti{From differential cryptanalysis to ciphertext-only attacks.} \itemso{Krawczyk, Hugo (ed.), Advances in cryptology - CRYPTO '98. 18th annual international cryptology conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 23--27, 1998. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 1462, 72-88 (1998).} \itemab Summary: The authors present a method for efficient conversion of differential (chosen plaintext) attacks into the more practical known plaintext and ciphertext-only attacks. Their observation may save up to a factor of $2^{20}$ in data over the known methods, assuming that plaintext is ASCII encoded English (or some other types of highly redundant data). They demonstrate the effectiveness of their method by practical attacks on the block-cipher Madryga and on round-reduced versions of RC5 and DES. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{} \itemut{block-ciphers; differential cryptanalysis; differential-linear attack; ciphertext-only attacks; Madryga; RC5; DES} \itemli{} \end