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Finding low-weight polynomial multiples using discrete logarithm

Cryptography and Security 2007-07-12 v3

Abstract

Finding low-weight multiples of a binary polynomial is a difficult problem arising in the context of stream ciphers cryptanalysis. The classical algorithm to solve this problem is based on a time memory trade-off. We will present an improvement to this approach using discrete logarithm rather than a direct representation of the involved polynomials. This gives an algorithm which improves the theoretical complexity, and is also very flexible in practice.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0701069,
  title  = {Finding low-weight polynomial multiples using discrete logarithm},
  author = {Frédéric Didier and Yann Laigle-Chapuy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0701069},
  year   = {2007}
}