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Title:
New Directions in Cryptanalysis of Self-Synchronizing Stream Ciphers
Authors: Shahram Khazaei, Willi Meier
Abstract:In cryptology we commonly face the problem of finding an unknown key K from the output of an easily computable keyed function F(C,K) where the attacker has the power to choose the public variable C. In this work we focus on self-synchronizing stream ciphers. First we show how to model these primitives in the above-mentioned general problem by relating appropriate functions F to the underlying ciphers. Then we apply the recently proposed framework presented at AfricaCrypt’08 by Fischer et. al. for dealing with this kind of problems to the proposed T-function based self-synchronizing stream cipher by Klimov and Shamir at FSE’05 and show how to deduce some non-trivial information about the key. We also open a new window for answering a crucial question raised by Fischer et. al. regarding the problem of finding weak IV bits which is essential for their attack.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/369
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