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Decimation Attack of Stream Ciphers

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Progress in Cryptology —INDOCRYPT 2000 (INDOCRYPT 2000)

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This paper presents a new attack called Decimation Attack of most stream ciphers. It exploits the property that multiple clocking (or equivalently d-th decimation) of a LFSR can simulate the behavior of many other LFSRs of possible shorter length. It yields then significant improvements of all the previous known correlation and fast correlation attacks. A new criterion on the length of the polynomial is then defined to resist to the decimation attack. Simulation results and complexity comparison are detailed for ciphertext only attacks.

This work was supported by Conseil Régional de Bretagne grant A0C271

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    Eric Filiol

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  1. Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

    Bimal Roy

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

    Eiji Okamoto

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Filiol, E. (2000). Decimation Attack of Stream Ciphers. In: Roy, B., Okamoto, E. (eds) Progress in Cryptology —INDOCRYPT 2000. INDOCRYPT 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1977. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44495-5_4

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