[Resource Topic] 2001/078: The COS Stream Ciphers are Extremely Weak

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Title:
The COS Stream Ciphers are Extremely Weak

Authors: Steve Babbage

Abstract:

A new family of very fast stream ciphers called COS (for “crossing over system”) has been proposed by Filiol and Fontaine, and seems to have been adopted for at least one commercial standard. In this note we show that the COS ciphers are very weak indeed — it requires negligible effort to reconstruct the state of the keystream generator from a very small amount of known keystream.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2001/078

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