Algebraic attacks on stream ciphers with linear feedback

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2656, Issue , 2003, Pages 345-359

  Courtois, Nicolas T ^a   Meier, Willi ^b  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Algebraic attacks on stream ciphers; Boolean functions; Ciphertext only attacks; Cryptrec; Factoring multivariate polynomials; LILI 128; Multivariate equations; Nessie; Nonlinear filtering; Overdefined problems; Pseudo random generators; Toyocrypt; XL algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CLOCKS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR FILTERING;

CIPHERTEXT-ONLY ATTACKS; CRYPTREC; LILI-128; MULTIVARIATE EQUATIONS; MULTIVARIATE POLYNOMIAL; NESSIE; OVERDEFINED PROBLEMS; PSEUDORANDOM GENERATORS; STREAM CIPHERS; TOYOCRYPT;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS;

EID: 35248820612     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-39200-9_21     Document Type: Article

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