Fast Software Encryption

RC6 has been submitted as a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Two important features of RC6 that were absent from its predecessor RC5 are a quadratic function and a fixed rotation. By examining simplified variants that omit these features we clarify their essential contribution to the overall security of RC6.

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