Trivium is a hardware-oriented stream cipher designed in 2005 by de Cannière and Preneel for the European project eStream, and it has successfully passed the first and the second phase of this project. Its design has a simple and elegant structure. Although Trivium has attached a lot of interest, it remains unbroken. In this paper we present differential fault analysis of Trivium and propose tw...

WG is a synchronous stream cipher submitted to the hardware profile of eSTREAM project. The main feature of this stream cipher is the use of WG transformation. WG uses keys and initial vectors (IVs) of the same lengths 80, 96, 112 and 128 bits. Moreover, IVs of the length 32 and 64 bits are admitted. The most important key recovery attack on WG was presented by Wu and Preneel and uses the weakn...

We present a novel instrument of automated cryptanalysis suitable for measuring the number of rounds that can build one PRF round, so that 4 such rounds could be recommended as a Luby-Rackoff cipher secure against adaptive attacks. ASD tests can detect structural flaws in al l kinds of cryptographic primitives and their implementations. We present our results for some of the well-known ciphers ...

For security applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), choosing best algorithms in terms of energy-efficiency and of small-storage requirements is a real challenge because the sensor networks must be autonomous. In [22], the authors have benchmarked on a dedicated platform some block-ciphers using several modes of operations and have deduced the best block cipher to use in the context of...

NLS is a stream cipher which was submitted to eSTREAM project. A linear distinguishing attack against NLS was presented by Cho and Pieprzyk, which was called as Crossword Puzzle attack. NLSv2 is the tweak version of NLS which aims mainly at avoiding the CP attack. In this paper, a new distinguishing attack against NLSv2 is presented. The attack exploits high correlation amongst neighboring bits...

Side-channel attacks on block ciphers and public key algorithms have been discussed extensively. However, there is only sparse literature about side-cannel attacks on stream ciphers. The few existing references mainly treat timing [8] and template attacks [10], or provide a theoretical analysis [6], [7] of weaknesses of stream cipher constructions. In this paper we present attacks on two focus ...

Achterbahn stream cipher is proposed as a candidate for ECRYPT eSTREAM project which deals with key of length 80-bit. The linear distinguishing attack,which aims at distinguishing the keystream from purely random keystream,is employed to Achterbahn stream cipher. A linear distinguishing attack is based on linear sequential circuit approximation technique which distinguishes statistical bias in ...

In this paper, we evaluate the software implementation of eSTREAM Profile II finalists (Grain, MICKEY, and Trivium) on a NodeMCU development kit 1.0 microcontroller. The NodeMCU is programmed by Arduino IDE to run a C++ code that awaits TCP communication over a WiFi network to encrypt or decrypt text using these lightweight stream ciphers. Throughput performance of the cipher implementations on...

In this paper, we present a correlation attack on Sosemanuk with complexity less than 2. Sosemanuk is a software oriented stream cipher proposed by Berbain et al. to the eSTREAM call for stream cipher and has been selected in the final portfolio. Sosemanuk consists of a linear feedback shift register(LFSR) of ten 32-bit words and a finite state machine(FSM) of two 32-bit words. By combining lin...

The tiny encryption algorithm (TEA) was developed by Wheeler and Needham as a simple computer program for encryption. This paper is the first design-space exploration for hardware implementations of the extended tiny encryption algorithm. It presents efficient implementations of XTEA on FPGAs and ASICs for ultra-low power applications such as RFID tags and wireless sensor nodes as well as fully...