Predicting masked linear pseudorandom number generators over finite fields

  • Authors:
  • Jaime Gutierrez;Álvar Ibeas;Domingo Gómez-Pérez;Igor E. Shparlinski

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain 39071;Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain 39071;Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain 39071;Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 2109

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We study the security of the linear generator over a finite field. It is shown that the seed of a linear generator can be deduced from partial information of a short sequence of consecutive outputs of such generators.