Information Theory Based Evaluation of the RC4 Stream Cipher Outputs
This paper presents a criterion, based on information theory, to measure the amount of average information provided by the sequences of outputs of the RC4 on the internal state. The test statistic used is the sum of the maximum plausible estimates of the entropies <inline-formula><math xmln...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/7/896 |