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The linear complexity and the $k$-error linear complexity of a sequence have been used as important security measures for key stream sequence strength in linear feedback shift register design. By using the sieve method of combinatorics, the…
By using the sieve method of combinatorics, we study $k$-error linear complexity distribution of $2^n$-periodic binary sequences based on Games-Chan algorithm. For $k=4,5$, the complete counting functions on the $k$-error linear complexity…
The linear complexity and k-error linear complexity of a sequence have been used as important measures of keystream strength, hence designing a sequence with high linear complexity and $k$-error linear complexity is a popular research topic…
The linear complexity of a sequence has been used as an important measure of keystream strength, hence designing a sequence which possesses high linear complexity and $k$-error linear complexity is a hot topic in cryptography and…
In this paper, in order to characterize the critical error linear complexity spectrum (CELCS) for $2^n$-periodic binary sequences, we first propose a decomposition based on the cube theory. Based on the proposed $k$-error cube…
The linear complexity of a sequence $s$ is one of the measures of its predictability. It represents the smallest degree of a linear recursion which the sequence satisfies. There are several algorithms to find the linear complexity of a…
Traditional global stability measure for sequences is hard to determine because of large search space. We propose the $k$-error linear complexity with a zone restriction for measuring the local stability of sequences. Accordingly, we can…
The linear complexity and the $k$-error linear complexity of a binary sequence are important security measures for key stream strength. By studying binary sequences with the minimum Hamming weight, a new tool named as hypercube theory is…
We consider the $k$-error linear complexity of a new binary sequence of period $p^2$, proposed in the recent paper "New generalized cyclotomic binary sequences of period $p^2$", by Z. Xiao et al., who calculated the linear complexity of the…
The linear complexity (LC) of a sequence has been used as a convenient measure of the randomness of a sequence. Based on the theories of linear complexity, $k$-error linear complexity, the minimum error and the $k$-error linear complexity…
We consider the $k$-error linear complexity of binary sequences derived from Eluer quotients modulo $2p$ ($p>3$ is an odd prime), recently introduced by J. Zhang and C. Zhao. We adopt certain decimal sequences to determine the values of…
A fast algorithm is presented for determining the linear complexity and the minimal polynomial of periodic sequences over GF(q) with period q n p m, where p is a prime, q is a prime and a primitive root modulo p2. The algorithm presented…
Nonlinear complexity is an important measure for assessing the randomness of sequences. In this paper we investigate how circular shifts affect the nonlinear complexities of finite-length binary sequences and then reveal a more explicit…
We compare ordinary and symmetric variants of two classical measures of pseudorandomness for binary sequences, the $2$-adic complexity and the linear complexity. In the periodic setting, we show that for binary periodic sequences…
We investigate the $k$-error linear complexity of pseudorandom binary sequences of period $p^{\mathfrak{r}}$ derived from the Euler quotients modulo $p^{\mathfrak{r}-1}$, a power of an odd prime $p$ for $\mathfrak{r}\geq 2$. When…
Nonlinear complexity, as an important measure for assessing the randomness of sequences, is defined as the length of the shortest feedback shift registers that can generate a given sequence. In this paper, the structure of n-periodic binary…
We investigate the $k$-error linear complexity of $p^2$-periodic binary sequences defined from the polynomial quotients (including the well-studied Fermat quotients), which is defined by $$ q_{p,w}(u)\equiv \frac{u^w-u^{wp}}{p} \bmod p ~…
The union cost is used, so that an efficient algorithm for computing the k-error linear complexity of a sequence with period 2pn over GF(q) is presented, where p and q are odd primes, and q is a primitive root of modulo p2.
The linear complexity is a measure for the unpredictability of a sequence over a finite field and thus for its suitability in cryptography. In 2012, Diem introduced a new figure of merit for cryptographic sequences called expansion…
Correlation measure of order $k$ is an important measure of randomness in binary sequences. This measure tries to look for dependence between several shifted version of a sequence. We study the relation between the correlation measure of…