An Improved Correlation Attack Against Irregular Clocked and Filtered Keystream Generators

In this paper we propose a new key recovery attack on irregular clocked keystream generators where the stream is filtered by a nonlinear Boolean function. We show that the attack is much more efficient than expected from previous analytic methods, and we believe it improves all previous attacks on the cipher model.

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