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A linear distinguishing attack on SCREAM

Johansson, Thomas LU orcid and Maximov, Alexander LU (2007) In IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 53(9). p.3127-3144
Abstract
A linear distinguishing attack on the stream cipher Scream is proposed. When the keystream is of length 2(98) words, the distinguisher has a detectable advantage. When the keystream length is around 2(120) the advantage is very close to 1. This shows certain weaknesses of Scream. In the process, the paper introduces new general ideas on how to improve the performance of linear distinguishing attacks on stream ciphers.
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advantage, distinguishing attack, Scream, linear cryptanalysis
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IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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53
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9
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3127 - 3144
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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0018-9448
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English
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  series       = {{IEEE Transactions on Information Theory}},
  title        = {{A linear distinguishing attack on SCREAM}},
  volume       = {{53}},
  year         = {{2007}},
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