TMD-Tradeoff and state entropy loss considerations of streamcipher MICKEY

  • Authors:
  • Jin Hong;Woo-Hwan Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • National Security Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea;National Security Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea

  • Venue:
  • INDOCRYPT'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Cryptology in India
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We give three weaknesses of a recently proposed streamcipher MICKEY. A small class of weak keys is found and we show time-memory-data tradeoff is applicable. We also show that the state update function reduces entropy of the internal state as it is iterated, resulting in keystreams that start out differently but become merged together towards the end.