• DocumentCode
    1094050
  • Title

    Intrinsic weakness of variable-memory keystream generators

  • Author

    Menicocci, Renato

  • Author_Institution
    Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    5/26/1994 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    850
  • Lastpage
    851
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19940573
  • Filename
    287480