Stream Ciphers
Alan G. Konheim · 2006
This chapter contains sections titled: Stream Ciphers Feedback Shift Registers The Algebra of Polynomials over Z2 The Characteristic Polynomial of a Linear Feedback Shift Register Properties of Maximal Length LFSR Sequences Linear Equivalence Combining Multiple Linear Feedback Shift Registers Matrix Representation of the LFSR Cribbing of Stream Enciphered ASCII Plaintext Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers Nonlinear Key Stream Generation Irregular Clocking RC4 Stream Encipherment Problems