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Distinguishing Attacks are a class of attacks on stream ciphers, which evaluate the random peroperties of the keystream generated by a stream cipher. In fact in these attacks the cryptanalyst tries to determine whether a stream is generated by a specific cipher or it seems random. Most of the Distinguishing attacks use the linear cryptanalysis technique and are called Linear Distinguishing Attack. The focus of this thesis is on linear distinguishing attacks. After a survey on stream ciphers and their cryptanalysis methods, distinguishing attack is introduced in detail. Then a new successful linear distinguishing attack on a recently developed stream cipher, Shannon, is presented. This attack... 

The goal of authenticated encryption is to ensure confidentiality, integrity and authenti-cation of the messages simultaneously. The anouncement of CAESAR comptetition has attracted esearchers’ attention to this branch of symmetric cryptography, since 2014. 57 schemes have been introduced as the first round candidates of this competition, from which 29 where selected as second round candidates. Cryptanalysis of these schemes needs a lot of collective effort. In this thesis after describing preliminaries of authen- ticated encryption, general structure of the schemes and their reported cryptanalysis is reviewed. Then, the details of Pr∅st family of authenticated encryption, which is one of... 

Stream ciphers are cryptographic schemes being widely used in communications as a means of providing security of data. Hence, scrutinizing their level of security against different cryptanalytic methods has obviously turned to be of great importance. Randomness of the keystream is an important requirement for stream ciphers. The cipher should be designed in such a way that the keystream is free of any statistical biases that would let attackers distinguish it from a random sequence. A distinguishing attack on a stream cipher is one that determines whether a given stream of symbols is a truly random sequence or generated by a specific cipher with an unknown key. In this thesis, we focus on... 

According to the development of communication, cryptography has become a vital issue. Several algorithms have been introduced for cryptography applications. Stream ciphers are such algorithms with high speed and appropriate efficiency. Lots of attacks have been applied to stream ciphers. We concentrate on two kinds of attacks in this thesis. Distinguishing attack is a general attack in which the attacker tries to distinguish the observed output sequence from random. Designers apply this kind of attack to test the statistical probabilities of the output sequence. We applied this attack on Grain family and Trivium family. In the proposed attack, nonlinear parts are replaced with linear ones....