A biclique attack is a type of cryptographic attack used primarily against ciphers and hash functions that exploit the structure of their underlying mathematical functions. This attack utilizes the concept of a biclique—a subset of a bipartite graph—where the nodes within the two sets can have connections (or edges) between them. The attack takes advantage of this structure to reduce the complexity of finding keys or collisions in modern cryptographic algorithms.
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