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Presentation 2007-05-18 16:50
On Equivalent Keys of Stream Ciphers
Ryoichi Teramura, Takanori Isobe, Toshihiro Ohigashi, Hidenori Kuwakado, Masakatu Morii (Kobe Univ.)
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) When different keys are used in encryption, we call these keys equivalent keys
if ciphertexts generated from these keys have equivalence.
In general, the equivalent keys are the keys that generate same ciphertexts.
In the stream ciphers, the keys that generate pseudo-random sequence (called keystreams)
of different phase are also called equivalent keys
since the ciphertext is made by XORing the plaintext to the keystream
that is generated from a secret key and an initialization vector (IV).
In this paper, we present such equivalent keys searching method for stream ciphers.
We apply the proposed method to Grain v1 and Mickey 2.0 submitted to the ECRYPT Stream Cipher Project (eSTREAM).
We can obtain
equivalent keys (secret key and IV pairs) of these stream ciphers with small time complexity.
Additionally, we show that the space of equivalent keys identified by the proposed method
is about $1/2$ in all secret key and IV pairs.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) equivalent key / stream cipher / Grain v1 / Mickey 2.0 / eSTREAM / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 107, no. 44, ISEC2007-15, pp. 101-108, May 2007.
Paper # ISEC2007-15 

Conference Information
Committee ISEC  
Conference Date 2007-05-18 - 2007-05-18 
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Place (in English) Kikai-Shinko-Kaikan Bldg. 
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Registration To ISEC 
Conference Code 2007-05-ISEC 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) On Equivalent Keys of Stream Ciphers 
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Keyword(1) equivalent key 
Keyword(2) stream cipher 
Keyword(3) Grain v1 
Keyword(4) Mickey 2.0 
Keyword(5) eSTREAM 
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1st Author's Name Ryoichi Teramura  
1st Author's Affiliation Kobe University (Kobe Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Takanori Isobe  
2nd Author's Affiliation Kobe University (Kobe Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Toshihiro Ohigashi  
3rd Author's Affiliation Kobe University (Kobe Univ.)
4th Author's Name Hidenori Kuwakado  
4th Author's Affiliation Kobe University (Kobe Univ.)
5th Author's Name Masakatu Morii  
5th Author's Affiliation Kobe University (Kobe Univ.)
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Date Time 2007-05-18 16:50:00 
Presentation Time 25 
Registration for ISEC 
Paper # IEICE-ISEC2007-15 
Volume (vol) IEICE-107 
Number (no) IEICE-ISEC-44 
Page pp.101-108 
#Pages IEICE-8 


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