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On Large Distributions for Linear Cryptanalysis

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Calculating the distribution of certain functions during the linear cryptanalysis of stream ciphers is a frequently encountered problem. Let a function N (or a noise variable) be expressed via k mutually independent and uniformly distributed n-bit random variables X 1, X 2, ..., X k . The possibility to construct its distribution depends on the form of the expression N, and sometimes it becomes a bottleneck of the cryptanalysis.

In this paper we propose several new techniques to construct such distributions and widen the class of functions for which its distribution can efficiently be calculated.

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Maximov, A. (2007). On Large Distributions for Linear Cryptanalysis. In: Nam, KH., Rhee, G. (eds) Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2007. ICISC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4817. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76788-6_8

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