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A linear distinguishing attack on SCREAM

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Summary, in English

A linear distinguishing attack on the stream cipher Scream is proposed. When the keystream is of length 2(98) words, the distinguisher has a detectable advantage. When the keystream length is around 2(120) the advantage is very close to 1. This shows certain weaknesses of Scream. In the process, the paper introduces new general ideas on how to improve the performance of linear distinguishing attacks on stream ciphers.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

3127-3144

Publication/Series

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volume

53

Issue

9

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Keywords

  • advantage
  • distinguishing attack
  • Scream
  • linear cryptanalysis

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0018-9448