The experimental distinguishing attack on RC4

Sergey Doroshenko; Boris Ryabko

Paper 2006/070

The experimental distinguishing attack on RC4

Sergey Doroshenko and Boris Ryabko

Abstract

The output of RC4 was analyzed using the "book stack" test for randomness. It is experimentally shown that the keystream generated from RC4 can be distinguished from random with about $2^{32}$ output bits.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Secret-key cryptography
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords: stream ciphers
Contact author(s): boris @ ryabko net
History: 2006-02-23: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2006/070
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2006/070,
      author = {Sergey Doroshenko and Boris Ryabko},
      title = {The experimental distinguishing attack on RC4},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2006/070},
      year = {2006},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/070}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/070}
}