• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.85-91
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• 2016

Block cipher is one of the prominent and important elements in cryptographic systems and study on the minimal construction is a major theme in the cryptographic research. Even and Mansour motivated by the study suggested a kind of block cipher called the Even-Mansour scheme in the early 1990s. It is a very simple cipher with one permutation and two secret keys. There have been many studies on the Even-Mansour scheme and security analysis of the scheme. We explain the Even-Mansour scheme and simplify those attacks on the Even-Mansour scheme with mathematical language. Additionally, we show that Pollard's rho attack to the discrete logarithm problem can be used to attack the Even-Mansour scheme with the same complexity of the Pollard's rho attack.