CLOCK CONTROL SEQUENCE RECONSTRUCTION IN THE GENERALIZED SHRINKING GENERATOR

Slobodan Petrović

2007

Abstract

An algorithm is presented that reconstructs the clock control sequence in the generalized shrinking generator in the presence of noise. The shrinking generator is first reduced to a step 1/step E generator, where E depends on the maximum length of runs of zeros in the output sequence of its clocking part. Then a directed depth-first like search for optimal and suboptimal paths in the edit distance matrix corresponding to the generator is performed. The permitted path weight deviation from the optimum is determined by the noise level in the statistical model of the generator. Since the algorithm is deterministic, the correct clock control sequence is guaranteed to be found, unlike many known algorithms of this kind. Experimental results show that the algorithm converges to the correct solution relatively fast even if the noise level is high.

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in Harvard Style

Petrović S. (2007). CLOCK CONTROL SEQUENCE RECONSTRUCTION IN THE GENERALIZED SHRINKING GENERATOR . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-12-8, pages 259-262. DOI: 10.5220/0002118402590262


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt07,
author={Slobodan Petrović},
title={CLOCK CONTROL SEQUENCE RECONSTRUCTION IN THE GENERALIZED SHRINKING GENERATOR},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={259-262},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002118402590262},
isbn={978-989-8111-12-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007)
TI - CLOCK CONTROL SEQUENCE RECONSTRUCTION IN THE GENERALIZED SHRINKING GENERATOR
SN - 978-989-8111-12-8
AU - Petrović S.
PY - 2007
SP - 259
EP - 262
DO - 10.5220/0002118402590262