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Course Title
Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers
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Course Code
IAM 709
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Credit
(3-0)3
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Outline
- Introduction to Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers.
- Boolean Functions and their Properties.
- Properties of Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers, their Periods, Linear Complexities and Nonlinear Complexities.
- Characterizations of Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers.
- Designing stream ciphers using NFSRs.
- Cryptanalysis of stream ciphers using NFSR.
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Suggested Textbooks
- Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone: Handbook of Applied Cryptography. CRC Press, 1996