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Vectorial fast correlation attacks

Authors:
Jovan Dj. Golic
Guglielmo Morgari
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/247
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Abstract: A new, vectorial approach to fast correlation attacks on binary memoryless combiners is proposed. Instead of individual input sequences or their linear combinations, the new attack is targeting subsets of input sequences as a whole, thus exploiting the full correlation between the chosen subset and the output sequence. In particular, all the input sequences can be targeted simultaneously. The attack is based on a novel iterative probabilistic algorithm which is also applicable to general memoryless combiners over finite fields or finite rings. Experimental results obtained for randomly chosen binary combiners with balanced combining functions show that the vectorial approach yields a considerable improvement in comparison with the classical, scalar approach.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2004-12216,
  title={Vectorial fast correlation attacks},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={secret-key cryptography / stream ciphers, sequential linear cryptanalysis, correlation attacks, iterative probabilistic decoding},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/247},
  note={ golic@inwind.it 12683 received 22 Sep 2004},
  author={Jovan Dj. Golic and Guglielmo Morgari},
  year=2004
}