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A note on the crosscorrelation of maximal length FCSR sequences

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In this note it is shown that if the connection integers of two maximal length FCSR sequences have a common prime factor, then any crosscorrelation between them can be converted into some autocorrelation of the sequence with smaller period.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

    Tian Tian & Wen-Feng Qi

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Tian, T., Qi, WF. A note on the crosscorrelation of maximal length FCSR sequences. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 51, 1–8 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-008-9238-y

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