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Conditional and unconditional correlation weaknesses of cascades of up/down clocked shift registers are determined. The corresponding systematic correlation attacks are proposed and the conditions for their success are obtained.
This work was done while the first author was with the Information Security Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Part of this work was carried out while the first author was on leave at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Golić, J.D., Menicocci, R. (1998). Correlation attacks on up/down cascades. In: Boyd, C., Dawson, E. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053727
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