• DocumentCode
    1557409
  • Title

    Comments on "Theory and applications of cellular automata in cryptography" [with reply]

  • Author

    Blackburn, S.R. ; Murphy, Sinead ; Paterson, K.G. ; Nandi, Sukumar ; Chaudhuri, P.P.

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. Security Group, London Univ., UK
  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    5/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    637
  • Lastpage
    639
  • Abstract
    This paper argues that the cipher systems based on cellular automata (CA) proposed by S. Nandi et al. (1994) are affine and are insecure. A reply by S. Nandi and P. Pal Chaudhuri is given. The reply emphasizes the point that the regular, modular, cascadable structure of local neighborhood CA can be employed for building low cost cipher system hardware. This cost effective engineering solution can achieve desired level of security with larger size CA.
  • Keywords
    cellular automata; computational complexity; cryptography; cascadable structure; cellular automata; cipher systems; cryptography; local neighborhood; Clocks; Cryptography; Interleaved codes; Polynomials; Principal component analysis; Read only memory; Security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/12.589245
  • Filename
    589245