# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2016, 10(4): 797-809. doi: 10.3934/amc.2016041

## Modelling the shrinking generator in terms of linear CA

 1 Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), R. Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 651, Cidade Universitária, Campinas - SP, 13083-859 2 Instituto de Tecnologías Físicas y de la Información, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, C/Serrano 144, 28006, Madrid, Spain

Received  December 2014 Revised  June 2016 Published  November 2016

This work analyses the output sequence from a cryptographic non-linear generator, the so-called shrinking generator. This sequence, known as the shrunken sequence, can be built by interleaving a unique PN-sequence whose characteristic polynomial serves as basis for the shrunken sequence's characteristic polynomial. In addition, the shrunken sequence can be also generated from a linear model based on cellular automata. The cellular automata here proposed generate a family of sequences with the same properties, period and characteristic polynomial, as those of the shrunken sequence. Moreover, such sequences appear several times along the cellular automata shifted a fixed number. The use of discrete logarithms allows the computation of such a number. The linearity of these cellular automata can be advantageously employed to launch a cryptanalysis against the shrinking generator and recover its output sequence.
Citation: Sara D. Cardell, Amparo Fúster-Sabater. Modelling the shrinking generator in terms of linear CA. Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2016, 10 (4) : 797-809. doi: 10.3934/amc.2016041
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