Presentation 2018-11-03
A Statistical Method for Searching Biases of Stream Ciphers
Seiya Tanamoto, Toshihiro Ohigashi, Takanori Isobe,
PDF Download Page PDF download Page Link
Abstract(in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Abstract(in English) Plaintext recovery attacks on stream ciphers based on biases of keystream in the broadcast setting where same plaintext is encrypted by different user keys have been proposed. Their attacks depended on strength of biases of the keystream. In general, these biases are discovered by experimentally search. Since it is judged that bias is discovered from computer experiments by the subjectivity of the researchers, another bias were often overlooked. In this paper, we give a statistical evaluation method for analyzing the experimental result of bias search of stream ciphers. In addition, we apply our method to RC4 stream cipher. As the results, our method found all known strongest signle-byte bias for from the 1st to 259th bytes of the keystream. Furthermore, our method shows that from the 260th to 5000th bytes of keystream do not have large bias compared with the first 259 bytes of that.
Keyword(in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Keyword(in English) stream Cipher / biases / keystream
Paper # ISEC2018-64,SITE2018-42,LOIS2018-24
Date of Issue 2018-10-27 (ISEC, SITE, LOIS)

Conference Information
Committee SITE / ISEC / LOIS
Conference Date 2018/11/3(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English)
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English)
Chair Tetsuya Morizumi(Kanagawa Univ.) / Atsushi Fujioka(Kanagawa Univ.) / Tomohiro Yamada(NTT)
Vice Chair Masaru Ogawa(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Takushi Otani(Kibi International Univ.) / Shiho Moriai(NICT) / Shoichi Hirose(Univ. of Fukui) / Toru Kobayashi(Nagasaki Univ.)
Secretary Masaru Ogawa(Tokyo Health Care Univ.) / Takushi Otani(Toyo Eiwa Univ.) / Shiho Moriai(Tokai Univ.) / Shoichi Hirose(NICT) / Toru Kobayashi(NTT)
Assistant Hisanori Kato(KDDI Research) / Nobuyuki Yoshinaga(Yamaguchi Pref Univ.) / Daisuke Suzuki(Hokuriku Univ.) / Kazunari Omote(Tsukuba Univ.) / Yuuji Suga(IIJ) / Shinichiro Eitoku(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Social Implications of Technology and Information Ethics / Technical Committee on Information Security / Technical Committee on Life Intelligence and Office Information Systems
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) A Statistical Method for Searching Biases of Stream Ciphers
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) stream Cipher
Keyword(2) biases
Keyword(3) keystream
1st Author's Name Seiya Tanamoto
1st Author's Affiliation Tokai University(Tokai Univ)
2nd Author's Name Toshihiro Ohigashi
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokai University(Tokai Univ)
3rd Author's Name Takanori Isobe
3rd Author's Affiliation University of Hyogo(Univ. of Hyogo)
Date 2018-11-03
Paper # ISEC2018-64,SITE2018-42,LOIS2018-24
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) ISEC-279,SITE-280,LOIS-281
Page pp.pp.1-6(ISEC), pp.1-6(SITE), pp.1-6(LOIS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-10-27 (ISEC, SITE, LOIS)