Title: A CRYPTANALYSIS OF THE TINY ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM
Description: The Tiny Encryption Algorithm (TEA) is a cryptographic algorithm designed to
minimize memory footprint and maximize speed. It is a Feistel type cipher that uses
operations from mixed (orthogonal) algebraic groups. This research presents the
cryptanalysis of the Tiny Encryption Algorithm. In this research we inspected the most
common methods in the cryptanalysis of a block cipher algorithm. TEA seems to be
highly resistant to differential cryptanalysis, and achieves complete diffusion (where a
one bit difference in the plaintext will cause approximately 32 bit differences in the
cipher text) after only six rounds. Time performance on a modern desktop computer or
workstation is very impressive.