Generic Round-Function-Recovery Attacks for Feistel Networks over Small Domains

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Feistel Networks (FN) are now being used massively to encrypt credit card numbers through format-preserving encryption. In our work, we focus on FN with two branches, entirely unknown round functions, modular additions (or other group operations), and when the domain size of a branch (called N) is small. We investigate round-function-recovery attacks.