= Distinguishing attack
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A distinguishing attack is a type of cryptographic attack aimed at determining whether a given cryptographic algorithm or function is behaving like it should, or whether it is behaving differently (e.g., due to a weakness or flaw). The main goal of a distinguishing attack is to differentiate between the outputs of a cryptographic function (like a pseudorandom function or cipher) and the outputs of a truly random function.
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