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Security Weaknesses in a Randomized Stream Cipher

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Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2000)

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TriStrata appears to have implemented a variation of Maurer’s randomised cipher. We define a variation of Maurer’s cipher that appears to be similar to the TriStrata version, and show several cryptanalytical attacks against our variant.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Counterpane Systems, 101 E Minnehaha Parkway, Minneapolis, MN, 55419, USA

    Niels Ferguson & Bruce Schneier

  2. University of California Berkeley, Soda Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    David Wagner

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  1. Niels Ferguson
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  1. Information Security Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, 4000, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    E. P. Dawson , A. Clark  & Colin Boyd ,  & 

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Ferguson, N., Schneier, B., Wagner, D. (2000). Security Weaknesses in a Randomized Stream Cipher. In: Dawson, E.P., Clark, A., Boyd, C. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10718964_19

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/10718964_19

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