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The key scheduling algorithm (KSA) of the Grain family of stream ciphers expands the uniformly chosen key (K) and initialization vector (IV) to a larger uniform looking state. The existence of non-randomness in KSA results a non-randomness in final keystream. In this paper, we observe a non-randomness in the KSA of Grain-v1 and Grain-128a stream ciphers of reduced round R. However, we could not exploit the non-randomness into an attack. It can be claimed that if the KSA generates pseudorandom state, then the probability of generating a valid state T (i.e., in the range set of KSA function) of Grain-v1, Grain-128a must be \(2^{-\delta }\), where \(\delta \) is the length of padding bits. In case of Grain-v1 and Grain-128a, \(\delta =16, 32\) respectively. We show that a new valid state can be constructed by flipping 3 and 19 bits of a given state in Grain-v1 and Grain-128a respectively with a probability higher than \(2^{-\delta }\). We show that the non-randomness happens for \(R \le 129\) and \(R\le 208\) rounds of KSA of Grain-v1 and Grain-128a respectively. Further, in the case of Grain-v1, we also found non-randomness in some key, IV bits from the experiment.
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Dalai, D.K., Roy, D. (2018). An Observation of Non-randomness in the Grain Family of Stream Ciphers with Reduced Initialization Round. In: Chattopadhyay, A., Rebeiro, C., Yarom, Y. (eds) Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering. SPACE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11348. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05072-6_1
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