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Grain is a stream cipher suitable for restricted hardware environments. The cipher is particularly vulnerable to fault attacks. It has been shown that fault injection in either the linear or nonlinear block of Grain can break the cipher. Fault attacks generally exploit the linear behaviour and the reversibility of the cipher states. Using Cellular Automata (CA), we propose a Grain-like cipher which is shown to be strong particularly against fault attacks.
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Jose, J., Roy Chowdhury, D. (2016). FResCA: A Fault-Resistant Cellular Automata Based Stream Cipher. In: El Yacoubi, S., Wąs, J., Bandini, S. (eds) Cellular Automata. ACRI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9863. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44365-2_3
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