Title :
Intrinsic weakness of variable-memory keystream generators
Author :
Menicocci, Renato
Author_Institution :
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome
fDate :
5/26/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A cryptographic weakness in a pseudorandom binary sequence generator proposed in the literature as a keystream generator for stream cipher applications is pointed out. Some results obtained by computer simulation are presented
Keywords :
cryptography; digital arithmetic; memory architecture; random number generation; computer simulation; cryptographic weakness; pseudorandom binary sequence generator; stream cipher applications; variable-memory keystream generators;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19940573
