How to strengthen pseudo-random generators by using compression

  • Authors:
  • Aline Gouget;Hervé Sibert

  • Affiliations:
  • France Telecom Research and Development, Caen, France;France Telecom Research and Development, Caen, France

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'06 Proceedings of the 24th annual international conference on The Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques
  • Year:
  • 2006
  • Decimv2

    New Stream Cipher Designs

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Abstract

Sequence compression is one of the most promising tools for strengthening pseudo-random generators used in stream ciphers. Indeed, adding compression components can thwart algebraic attacks aimed at LFSR-based stream ciphers. Among such components are the Shrinking Generator and the Self-Shrinking Generator, as well as recent variations on Bit-Search-based decimation. We propose a general model for compression used to strengthen pseudo-random sequences. We show that there is a unique (up to length-preserving permutations) construction that reaches an optimal trade-off between output rate and security against several attacks.