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New Weaknesses in the Keystream Generation Algorithms of the Stream Ciphers TPy and Py

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New Weaknesses in the Keystream Generation Algorithms of the Stream Ciphers TPy and Py
The stream ciphers Py, Py6 designed by Biham and Seberry were promising candidates in the ECRYPT-eSTREAM project because of their impressive speed. Since their publication in April 2005, a number of cryptanalytic weaknesses of the ciphers have been discovered. As a result, a strengthened version Pypy was developed to repair these weaknesses; it was included in the category of ‘Focus ciphers’ of the Phase II of the eSTREAM competition. However, even the new cipher Pypy was not free from flaws, resulting in a second redesign. This led to the generation of three new ciphers TPypy, TPy and TPy6. The designers claimed that TPy would be secure with a key size up to 256 bytes, i.e., 2048 bits. In February 2007, Sekar et al. published an attack on TPy with 2281 data and comparable time. This paper shows how to build a distinguisher with 2268.6 key/IVs and one outputword for each key (i.e., the distinguisher can be constructed within the design specifications); it uses a different set o...
Gautham Sekar, Souradyuti Paul, Bart Preneel
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ISW
Authors Gautham Sekar, Souradyuti Paul, Bart Preneel
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