Improved Bounds on the Linear Complexity of Keystreams Obtained by Filter Generators

  • Authors:
  • Nicholas Kolokotronis;Konstantinos Limniotis;Nicholas Kalouptsidis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 15784;Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 15784;Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 15784

  • Venue:
  • Information Security and Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Binary sequences generated by nonlinearly filtering maximal length sequences with period 2n茂戮驴 1 are studied in this paper. We focus on the particular class of normal filtersand provide improved lower bounds on the linear complexity of generated keystreams. This is achieved by first proving properties of a special class of determinants which are associated to linearized polynomialsover finite fields of characteristic 2 and then by applying the above to simplify generalizations of the root presence test.