Detectable correlations in Edon-R

The Edon-R compression function has a large set of useful differentials that produce easily detectable output bit biases. We show how to construct such differentials, and use them to create a distinguisher for Edon-R-512 that requires around 2 compression function evaluations (or 2 evaluations after a pre-computation of 2 evaluations). The differentials can also be used to attack a variety of MAC and KDF constructions when they use Edon-R-512.

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