Back Criptoanàlisi diferencial Catalan Differenzielle Kryptoanalyse German Criptoanálisis diferencial Spanish رمزگذاری تفاضلی Persian Differentiaalinen kryptoanalyysi Finnish Cryptanalyse différentielle French קריפטואנליזה דיפרנציאלית HE Crittanalisi differenziale Italian 差分解読法 Japanese 차분 공격 Korean
Differential cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis applicable primarily to block ciphers, but also to stream ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. In the broadest sense, it is the study of how differences in information input can affect the resultant difference at the output. In the case of a block cipher, it refers to a set of techniques for tracing differences through the network of transformation, discovering where the cipher exhibits non-random behavior, and exploiting such properties to recover the secret key (cryptography key).