Distinguishing attack

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In cryptography, a distinguishing attack is a deciphering technique. The goal of a distinguishing attack is to distinguish the output of a block cipher from a random permutation, or a stream cipher's keystream from a random bitstream.

[edit] See also

• Randomness test
• Avalanche effect

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