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What is the best attack on AES with a half known key?

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If I have a 16 bytes key and I encrypt a text block (1KB) with AES, and the attacker knows half of the key (let's say the first half), how does it weakens the encryption?

Maarten Bodewes avatar
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Hint: what does the AES standard say about the bits of the key?
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