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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Proof of Empirical RC4 Biases and New Key Correlations
verfasst von : Sourav Sen Gupta, Subhamoy Maitra, Goutam Paul, Santanu Sarkar
Erschienen in: Selected Areas in Cryptography
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In SAC 2010, Sepehrdad, Vaudenay and Vuagnoux have reported some empirical biases between the secret key, the internal state variables and the keystream bytes of RC4, by searching over a space of all linear correlations between the quantities involved. In this paper, for the first time, we give theoretical proofs for all such significant empirical biases. Our analysis not only builds a framework to justify the origin of these biases, it also brings out several new conditional biases of high order. We establish that certain conditional biases reported earlier are correlated with a third event with much higher probability. This gives rise to the discovery of new keylength-dependent biases of RC4, some as high as 50/
N
, where
N
is the size of the RC4 permutation. The new biases in turn result in successful
keylength prediction
from the initial keystream bytes of the cipher.