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GOST, SIMON, BEAR-LION, CAST-256, CLEFIA

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Feistel Ciphers

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In this chapter, we present concrete ciphers based on the constructions studied previously. We provide examples of balanced, unbalanced and generalized Feistel ciphers. For each of them, we give the description and a survey of attacks performed on these ciphers.

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Nachef, V., Patarin, J., Volte, E. (2017). GOST, SIMON, BEAR-LION, CAST-256, CLEFIA. In: Feistel Ciphers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49530-9_12

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