International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Rabbit stream cipher is one of the finalists of eSTREAM

project which uses 128-bit secret keys. Prior to us, the attacks on Rabbit

has been all focused on the bias analysis and the best result showed the

distinguishing attack with complexity 2136. Our analysis in this paper,

is based on chosen IV analysis on reduced N-S round of Rabbit though

using multi cube tester. For this purpose we show for a mature cube

we could easily identify weak subcubes which increase the probability of

distinguishing for an unknown secret key. We also represent with 225

complexity, using one iteration of next state function the keystream is

completely distinguishable from random.