ISSN : 1226-0657
We present a new block cipher called DyC. It consists of four sets (procedures) having the different <TEX>$2^2,\;2^2,\;2^4$</TEX>, and <TEX>$2^8$</TEX> one-to-one correspondence functions as the elements. The round key is used to determine exactly one composite function from the possible <TEX>$2^{16}$</TEX> composite functions. DyC supports 8 <TEX>$\times$</TEX> n bit key size, 16 <TEX>$\times$</TEX> m bit block length, and n rounds. We have confirmed that DyC offers security against other well-known advanced cryptanalytic attacks including the slide attacks and interpolation attacks. In this paper, we show several properties of the key schedule of DyC by mathematical analysis.