Analysis and Improvements of the Full Spritz Stream Cipher

Spritz is a stream cipher proposed by Rivest and Schuldt at the rump session of CRYPTO 2014. It is intended to be a replacement of the popular RC4 stream cipher. In this paper we propose distinguishing attacks on the full Spritz, based on a short-term bias in the first two bytes of a keystream and a...

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Main Authors: Banik, Subhadeep, Isobe, Takanori, Morii, Masakatu
Other Authors: Temasek Laboratories
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81487
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43486