An improved attack on 7-round AES

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Recently, Milad Nasr and Nicholas Carlini used an AI model to improve an earlier attack on seven-round AES-128 . And Satoru Kanno (@satokan3) wrote a great explanation of the result in Japanese . Here’s a walkthrough based on his blog post and my understanding of the results, in English. TLDR: Don’t panic. It’s an incremental improvement to an impractical reduced-round attack. Full AES-128 remains…

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