Abstract
C. Ding, W. Shan and G. Xiao conjectured a certain kind of trade-off between the linear complexity and the k-error linear complexity of periodic sequences over a finite field. This conjecture has recently been disproved by the first author, by showing that for infinitely many period lengths N and some values of k both complexities may take very large values (contradicting the above conjecture). Here we use some recent achievements of analytic number theory to extend the class of period lengths N and the number of admissible errors k for which this conjecture fails for rather large values of k. We also discuss the relevance of this result for stream ciphers.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 183-189 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
Volume | 2898 |
Publication status | Published - 2003 |