We release KeccakTools v3.3, a set of documented C++ classes that can help analyze Keccak. This new version is a major update, as it adds important classes and methods related to differential and linear cryptanalysis.

We used these classes and methods to obtain the results reported in the paper Differential propagation anaylsis of Keccak presented at FSE 2012 (also available as ePrint 2012/163). These include:

• the exhaustive forward and backward extension of trails up to a given weight and given number of rounds;
• related to θ:
• the representation of column parities in runs;
• lower bounding the weight of any 2-round trail core with a given parity;
• the exhaustive generation of 2-round trail cores with a given parity;
• the exhaustive generation of 2-round trail cores with a small number of active rows;
• the exhaustive generation of 3-round trail cores in the kernel up to a given weight:
• the generation of knots and chains between knots;
• the generation of vortices and their combination with knots and chains;
• the implementation of a lower bound on the weight while adding knots, chains and vortices to limit the search.

The complete list of features can be found here.