In cryptography, KN-Cipher is a block cipher created by Kaisa Nyberg and Lars Knudsen in 1995.
One of the first ciphers designed to be provably secure against ordinary differential cryptanalysis, KN-Cipher was later broken using higher order differential cryptanalysis.
Presented as "a prototype...compatible with DES", the algorithm has a 64-bit block size and a 6-round Feistel network structure.
The round function is based on the cube operation in the finite field GF(233).
"[2] Jakobsen & Knudsen's higher order differential cryptanalysis breaks KN-Cipher with only 512 chosen plaintexts and 241 running time, or with 32 chosen plaintexts and 270 running time.