Title :
Randomness properties of stream ciphers for wireless communications
Author :
Zhang, B.Y. ; Guang Gong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
fDate :
Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 1 2013
Abstract :
In this paper we evaluate the randomness properties of four synchronous stream ciphers for use in wireless communications. These ciphers are: SNOW 3G, ZUC, and AES, all of which are a part of the current LTE standard, and the WG-16 stream cipher. The randomness testing is performed with the NIST SP 800-22 test suite, and its results are accordingly tabulated. In addition, we also examine the autocorrelation properties of the keystreams.
Keywords :
Long Term Evolution; cryptography; telecommunication security; 3G; AES; LTE standard; NIST SP 800-22 test suite; SNOW; WG-16 stream cipher; ZUC; autocorrelation properties; randomness testing; synchronous stream ciphers; wireless communications; Ciphers; Complexity theory; Correlation; NIST; Snow; Testing; Time-frequency analysis; NIST; randomness testing; synchronous stream ciphers;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Design and Its Applications in Communications, The Sixth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6028-6
DOI :
10.1109/IWSDA.2013.6849074
