Differential cryptanalysis of the stream ciphers Py, Py6 and Pypy

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

Volumn 4515 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 276-290

  Wu, Hongjun ^a   Preneel, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Differential cryptanalysis; Py; Py6; Pypy; Stream cipher

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEQUENCES; CODES (SYMBOLS); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SECURITY OF DATA;

DIFFERENTIAL CRYPTANALYSIS; STREAM CIPHER;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 38049146170     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72540-4_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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