ABSTRACT

RC4 Stream Cipher and Its Variants is the first book to fully cover the popular software stream cipher RC4. With extensive expertise in stream cipher cryptanalysis and RC4 research, the authors focus on the analysis and design issues of RC4. They also explore variants of RC4 and the eSTREAM finalist HC-128.After an introduction to the vast field of

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction to Cryptology

chapter 2|10 pages

Stream Ciphers and RC4

chapter 3|42 pages

Analysis of Key Scheduling

chapter 4|44 pages

Key Recovery from State Information

chapter 5|44 pages

Analysis of Keystream Generation

chapter 6|26 pages

Distinguishing Attacks

chapter 7|10 pages

WEP and WPA Attacks

chapter 8|24 pages

Fault Attacks

chapter 9|22 pages

Variants of RC4

chapter 10|28 pages

Stream Cipher HC-128

chapter 11|2 pages

Conclusion