New form of permutation bias and secret key leakage in keystream bytes of RC4

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

Volumn 5086 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 253-269

  Maitra, Subhamoy ^a   Paul, Goutam ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bias; Cryptanalysis; Key Leakage; Keystream; RC4; Stream Cipher

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

BIAS; CRYPTANALYSIS; KEY LEAKAGE; KEYSTREAM; LINEAR COMBINATION; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; NEW FORMS; RC4; SECRET KEYS; STREAM CIPHER;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 50249171695     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71039-4_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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