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Peeling Nonlinear Layers: Algebraic Cryptanalysis of Full-Round Iasta

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This work presents the first third-party cryptanalysis of the full-round Iasta -3 and Iasta -4 instances and further extend the approach to Iasta -5, exploiting the restricted randomness and structured construction of the nonce-dependent affine-layer matrices.

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