Cryptanalysis of RC4-like ciphers

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

Volumn 1556, Issue , 1999, Pages 131-143

  Mister, S ^a   Tavares, S E ^b  

^a Entrust Technologies   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

BIT STREAM; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; CYCLE LENGTH; CYCLE STRUCTURES; FULL CYCLES; SCALED-DOWN VERSIONS; STREAM CIPHERS; TRACKING ATTACKS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84859054985     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48892-8_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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