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Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics, 2017, 11:2, 215-226

Volume 24, No 2, 2017, P. 32-52

UDC 519.17
A. M. Koreneva and V. M. Fomichev
The mixing properties of modified additive generators

Abstract:
We develop a matrix-graph approach to estimating the mixing properties of bijective shift registers over a set of binary vectors. Such shift registers generalize, on the one hand, the class of ciphers based on the Feistel network and, on the other hand, the class of transformations of additive generators (the additive generators are the base for the Fish, Pike, and Mush algorithms). It is worth noting that the original schemes of additive generators are found insecure due to their weak mixing properties. The article contains the results of investigations for the mixing properties of modified additive generators. For the mixing directed graph of a modified additive generator, we define the sets of arcs and cycles, obtain primitivity conditions, and give a bound for the exponent. We show that the determination of parameters for the modified additive generator allows us to achieve a full mixing in a number of iterations that is substantially less than the number of vertices in the mixing digraph.
Tab. 1, illustr. 1, bibliogr. 13.

Keywords: additive generator, modified additive generator, mixing di?graph, primitive digraph, shift register, exponent of digraph.

DOI: 10.17377/daio.2017.24.528

Alisa M. Koreneva 1
Vladimir M. Fomichev 1,2,3

1. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI,
31 Kashirskoe Highway, 115409 Moscow, Russia
2. Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation,
49 Leningradsky Ave., 125993 Moscow, Russia
3. Institute of Problems of Informatics (Russian Academy of Sciences),
44-2 Vavilova St., 119333 Moscow, Russia
e-mail: alisa.koreneva@gmail.com, fomichev@nm.ru

Received 19 February 2016
Revised 25 July 2016

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