International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 22 January 2014

Elena Dubrova
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The Fibonacci-to-Galois transformation is useful for reducing the propagation delay of feedback shift register-based stream ciphers and hash functions. In this paper, we extend it to handle Galois-to-Galois case as well as feedforward connections. This makes possible transforming Trivium stream cipher and increasing its keystream data rate by 27\\% without any penalty in area. The presented transformation might open new possibilities for cryptanalysis of Trivium, since it induces a class of stream ciphers which generate the same set of keystreams as Trivium, but have a different structure.

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