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STATISTICAL CRITERION OF CHECKING OF INDEPENDENCE OF INNER STATES AND OUTPUTS OF CRYPTOPRIMITIVE WHICH GENERATES (PSEUDO)RANDOM SEQUENCES

L.V. Kovalchuk, A.N. Davydenko, T.M. Klymenko, O.Yu. Bespalov

Èlektron. model. 2024, 46(5):03-18

https://doi.org/10.15407/emodel.46.05.003

ABSTRACT

The article is devoted to creation and justification of new statistical criterion of pairwise independence of binary sequences from given set, which are considered as realization of random variables. The corresponding algorithm, which fulfills the checking of pairwise independence, is formulated in details. This algorithm is necessary tool for statistical verification of cryptographic quality of different cryptoprimitives, which functioning is connected with random/ pseudorandom sequences generation — such as random/pseudorandom sequences generators or stream ciphers. Usage of the obtained criterion allows independence checking not only for output sequences, but also for its intermediate state or inputs. Note that such independence is necessary for unpredictability of output sequences.

KEYWORDS

random/pseudorandom sequences generator, independence of random variab­les, correlation matrix, inner states and outputs of cryptoprimitive.

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