• DocumentCode
    3276403
  • Title

    On the statistics of imbalance

  • Author

    Massey, James L.

  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    162
  • Abstract
    The second moment and the expected value of the empirical imbalance of a balanced random variable, which are the statistics needed to determine whether a particular input/output sum is useful for an attack by linear cryptanalysis on an iterated cipher, are determined for many independent trials
  • Keywords
    cryptography; probability; random processes; statistical analysis; balanced random variable; empirical imbalance; encryption; expected value; imbalance statistics; independent trials; input/output sum; iterated cipher; linear cryptanalysis attack; plaintext attack; second moment; Cryptography; Fluctuations; Random variables; Statistics; Testing; Yttrium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7123-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2001.936025
  • Filename
    936025