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Breaking the Stream Cipher Whitenoise
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Abstract: | Whitenoise is a stream cipher with specification given at http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/249. In this paper, we show that Whitenoise is extremely weak. It can be broken by solving about 80,000 linear equations. And only about 80,000 bytes keystream are needed in the attack. |
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@misc{eprint-2003-11963, title={Breaking the Stream Cipher Whitenoise}, booktitle={IACR Eprint archive}, keywords={secret-key cryptography / cryptanalysis, stream cipher, Whitenoise}, url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/250}, note={ hongjun@i2r.a-star.edu.sg 12468 received 30 Nov 2003, last revised 19 Feb 2004}, author={Hongjun Wu}, year=2003 }