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Periodic multisequences with large error linear complexity

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Generalizing the theory of k-error linear complexity for single sequences over a finite field, Meidl et al. (J. Complexity 23(2), 169–192 (2007)) introduced three possibilities of defining error linear complexity measures for multisequences. A good keystream sequence must possess a large linear complexity and a large k-error linear complexity simultaneously for suitable values of k. In this direction several results on the existence, and lower bounds on the number, of single sequences with large k-error linear complexity were proved in Meidl and Niederreiter (Appl. Algebra Eng. Commun. Comput. 14(4), 273–286 (2003)), Niederreiter (IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 49(2), 501–505 (2003)) and Niederreiter and Shparlinski (In: Paterson (ed.) 9th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding (2003)). In this paper we discuss analogous results for the case of multisequences. We also present improved bounds on the error linear complexity and on the number of sequences satisfying such bounds for the case of single sequences.

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Niederreiter, H., Venkateswarlu, A. Periodic multisequences with large error linear complexity. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 49, 33–45 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-008-9174-x

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