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The period of a recent streamcipher proposal Edon80 is analyzed. Even though the average period may be quite large, we show that for a randomly chosen key and IV pair, there exists a non-dismissible probability that the produced keystream will be of very short period.
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Hong, J. (2005). Period of Streamcipher Edon80 . In: Maitra, S., Veni Madhavan, C.E., Venkatesan, R. (eds) Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2005. INDOCRYPT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3797. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11596219_3
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