The expected value of the joint linear complexity of periodic multisequences

  • Authors:
  • Wilfried Meidl;Harald Niederreiter

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Discrete Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sonnenfelsgasse 19, A-1010 Vienna, Austria;Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Complexity
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Complexity measures for sequences of elements of a finite field, such as the linear complexity, play an important role in cryptology. Recent developments in stream ciphers point towards an interest in word-based (or vectorized) stream ciphers, which require the study of the complexity of multisequences. We extend a well-known relationship between the linear complexity of an N-periodic sequence and the (generalized) discrete Fourier transform of N- tuples to the case of multisequences. Using the concept of the generalized discrete Fourier transform for multisequences, we compute the expected value of the joint linear complexity of random periodic multisequences, and for some types of period lengths N we determine the number NNt(c) of t N-periodic sequences with given joint linear complexity c.