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Improved cryptanalysis of Py
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Abstract: | We improve on the best known cryptanalysis of the stream cipher Py by using a hidden Markov model for the carry bits in addition operations where a certain distinguishing event takes place, and constructing from it an "optimal distinguisher" for the bias in the output bits which makes more use of the information available. We provide a general means to efficiently measure the efficacy of such a hidden Markov model based distinguisher, and show that our attack improves on the previous distinguisher by a factor of 2^16 in the number of samples needed. Given 2^72 bytes of output we can distinguish Py from random with advantage greater than 1/2, or given only a single stream of 2^64 bytes we have advantage 0.03. |
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2006-21523, title={Improved cryptanalysis of Py}, booktitle={IACR Eprint archive}, keywords={secret-key cryptography / Py, symmetric cryptanalysis, hidden Markov model}, url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/030}, note={SASC 2006 workshop without proceedings paul@ciphergoth.org 13173 received 25 Jan 2006}, author={Paul Crowley}, year=2006 }