Paper 2006/070 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2006/070 ↗
The experimental distinguishing attack on RC4
Abstract
The output of RC4 was analyzed using the "book stack" test for randomness. It is experimentally shown that the keystream generated from RC4 can be distinguished from random with about $2^{32}$ output bits.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Secret-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2006-02-23: last updated
- 2006-02-23: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2006/070
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2006/070,
author = {Sergey Doroshenko and Boris Ryabko},
title = {The experimental distinguishing attack on RC4},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2006/070},
year = {2006},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/070}
}