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Cryptanalysis of Achterbahn-128/80

Hell, Martin LU and Johansson, Thomas LU orcid (2007) In IET Information Security 1(2). p.47-52
Abstract
A key recovery attack on the stream cipher Achterbahn-128/80, a cipher in the second phase of eSTREAM, is given. The key observation is a high dependency between some input bits to the Boolean combining function generating the keystream. It results in the first known attacks on both the 128-bit and the 80-bit variants of the cipher. The number of keystream bits required in the attacks is less than 264, the maximum frame length.
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1751-8717
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10.1049/iet-ifs:20060153
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  author       = {{Hell, Martin and Johansson, Thomas}},
  issn         = {{1751-8717}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{47--52}},
  publisher    = {{Institution of Engineering and Technology}},
  series       = {{IET Information Security}},
  title        = {{Cryptanalysis of Achterbahn-128/80}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/iet-ifs:20060153}},
  doi          = {{10.1049/iet-ifs:20060153}},
  volume       = {{1}},
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