• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.111-117
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• 2005

The period of a recent streamcipher proposal Edon80 is analyzed. The designers of Edon80 had projected a period of $2^{103}$ Even though this could indeed be the average keystream Period, we show that for a randomly chosen key-IV pair, there exists a non-dismissible probability that the produced keystream will be of relatively short period. More explicitly, a keystream of period. $2^{55}$ may appear with probability $2^{-71}$, and one can show the existence of at least one key-lV pair producing a period $2^{11}$ keystream.