Episode 20: Cryptanalysis of GPRS: GEA-1 and GEA-2!

A team of cryptanalysits presents the first publicly available cryptanalytic attacks on the GEA-1 and GEA-2 algorithms. Instead of providing full 64-bit security, they show that the initial state of GEA-1 can be recovered from as little as 65 bits of known keystream (with at least 24 bits coming from one frame) in time 240 GEA-1 evaluations and using 44.5 GiB of memory. The attack on GEA-1 is based on an exceptional interaction of the deployed LFSRs and the key initialization, which is highly unlikely to occur by chance. This unusual pattern indicates that the weakness is intentionally hidden to limit the security level to 40 bit by design. Cryptanalysis of the GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 and GEA-2 Music composed by Toby Fox and performed by Sean Schafianski . Special Guests: Gaëtan Leurent and Håvard Raddum.

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Episode 20: Cryptanalysis of GPRS: GEA-1 and GEA-2! is an episode from Cryptography FM by Symbolic Software.

This episode is 42:56 long.

This episode was published on Jul 20, 2021.

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