User:Dijxtra/List of cryptanalytic methods

Todo

1. Include all of the stuff from Category:Cryptographic_attacks
2. Write articles for red links

Attack models

• Chosen plaintext attack
• Chosen ciphertext attack
  • Adaptive chosen ciphertext attack
  • Indifferent chosen-ciphertext attack
• Known plaintext attack
• Known ciphertext attack

Methods of cryptanalysis

General

• Brute force attack
  • Dictionary attack

Classical cryptanalysis

• Frequency analysis
• Kasiski examination
• Index of coincidence

Symmetric algorithms

• Boomerang attack
  • Inside-out attack
  • Amplified boomerang attack
• Davies' attack
• Differential cryptanalysis
  • Truncated differential cryptanalysis
  • Higher order differential cryptanalysis
  • Impossible differential cryptanalysis
• Integral cryptanalysis
• Linear cryptanalysis
  • Differential-linear attack
• Meet-in-the-middle attack
• Partitioning cryptanalysis
  • Mod-n cryptanalysis
• Related-key attack
  • Differential related-key attack
• Slide attack
• XSL attack

Hash functions

• Birthday attack

Other methods

• Man-in-the-middle attack
• Gardening (cryptanalysis)
• Power analysis

Redlinks and unsorted stuff

• Weak key
• Algebraic cryptanalysis
• Passive attack
• Method of formal coding