Running-Key

Canteaut, Anne

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_368

Anne Canteaut³

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Keystream

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Stream Cipher; Symmetric Cryptography

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In a stream cipher, the running-key, also called the keystream, is the sequence which is combined, digit by digit, to the plaintext sequence for obtaining the ciphertext sequence. The running key is generated by a finite-state automaton called the running-key generator or the keystream generator.

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Project-Team SECRET, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, Le Chesnay, France
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Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Henk C. A. van Tilborg
Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4422, USA
Sushil Jajodia

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Canteaut, A. (2011). Running-Key. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_368

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