History
It was first developed as an attack on an attempted expansion of a block cipher by Diffie and Hellman in 1977.
Diffie and Hellman, however, devised a time-memory tradeoff that could break the scheme in only double the time to break the single-encryption scheme.
In 2011, Bo Zhu and Guang Gong investigate the Multidimensional Meet-in-the-Middle attack and present new attacks on the block ciphers GOST (block cipher), KTANTAN and Hummingbird-2.
Read more about this topic: Meet-in-the-middle Attack
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