The number of initial states of the RC4 cipher with the same cycle structure

Marina Pudovkina

Paper 2003/012

The number of initial states of the RC4 cipher with the same cycle structure

Marina Pudovkina

Abstract

RC4 cipher is the most widely used stream cipher in software applications. It was designed by R. Rivest in 1987. In this paper we find the number of keys of the RC4 cipher generating initial permutations with the same cycle structure. We obtain that the distribution of initial permutations is not uniform.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF PS
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Journal of Information Security, 2002
Contact author(s): maricap @ online ru
History: 2003-01-22: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2003/012
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2003/012,
      author = {Marina Pudovkina},
      title = {The number of initial states of the {RC4} cipher with the same cycle structure},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2003/012},
      year = {2003},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/012}
}