Stream ciphers using a random update function: study of the entropy of the inner state

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Röck

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France

  • Venue:
  • AFRICACRYPT'08 Proceedings of the Cryptology in Africa 1st international conference on Progress in cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Replacing random permutations by random functions for the update of a stream cipher introduces the problem of entropy loss. To assess the security of such a design, we need to evaluate the entropy of the inner state. We propose a new approximation of the entropy for a limited number of iterations. Subsequently, we discuss two collision attacks which are based on the entropy loss. We provide a detailed analysis of the complexity of those two attacks as well as of a variant using distinguished points.