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Simple Cellular Automata-Based Linear Models for the Shrinking Generator

Cryptography and Security 2010-06-10 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Structural properties of two well-known families of keystream generators, Shrinking Generators and Cellular Automata, have been analyzed. Emphasis is on the equivalence of the binary sequences obtained from both kinds of generators. In fact, Shrinking Generators (SG) can be identified with a subset of linear Cellular Automata (mainly rule 90, rule 150 or a hybrid combination of both rules). The linearity of these cellular models can be advantageously used in the cryptanalysis of those keystream generators.

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@article{arxiv.1006.1755,
  title  = {Simple Cellular Automata-Based Linear Models for the Shrinking Generator},
  author = {Amparo Fúster-Sabater and Dolores de la Gu'\ia-Martínez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.1755},
  year   = {2010}
}

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