The Merkle Hellman attack on 3DES begins by assuming a value of A 0 (Figure 6 1b) Then, for each of the 2 56 possible values of K 1 , the plaintext P that produces A 0 is determined Describe the rest of the algorithm K E K D K E K2 D A Encryption B Decryption (a) Double encryption K2 D Encryption F...

The MerkleHellman attack finds the desired two keys mathrmK1 and mathrmK2 by finding the plaintextci ...

The Merkle-Hellman attack on 3DES begins by assuming a value of A = 0 (Figure 6.1b). Then,

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The Merkle-Hellman attack on 3DES begins by assuming a value of A = 0 (Figure 6.1b). Then, for each of the 2⁵⁶ possible values of K₁, the plaintext P that produces A = 0 is determined. Describe the rest of the algorithm. image text in transcribed