Meet-in-the-middle Attack - A General Example of 2D-MITM

A General Example of 2D-MITM

This is a general description of how 2D-MITM is mounted on a block cipher encryption.

In Two-dimensional MITM (2D-MITM) the method is to reach 2 intermediate states inside the multiple encryption of the plaintext. See below figure:

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