A5

• A5
• A5 Pseudo-Random-Sequence Generator
• A5 - The GSM Encryption Algorithm
• SDA Clones Digital GSM Cellphones
• In Press
  • GSM Cellular Code Cracked (ABCNews)
• Papers
  • A5 - The GSM Encryption Algorithm (Ross Anderson, 1994)
  • Cryptanalysis of Alleged A5 Stream Cipher (Golic, Eurocrypt 97)
  • Cryptanalytic Time/Memory/Data tradeoffs for Stream Ciphers (Alex Biryukov, Adi Shamir, 2000)
  • Cryptanalysis of the A5/1 GSM Stream Cipher (Eli Biham, Orr Dunkelman, Indocrypt 2000)
  • Cryptanalysis of the A5/2 Algorithm (Slobodan Petrovic and Amparo Fúster-Sabater, eprint 2000/052)
  • Software-Hardware Trade-offs; application to A5/1 Cryptanalysis (Thomas Pornin, Jacques Stern)
  • Real Time Cryptanalysis of the Alleged A5/1 on a PC (preliminary draft) (Alex Biryukov, Adi Shamir, David Wagner, 2000)
  • Cryptanalytic Time/Memory/Data tradeoffs for Stream Ciphers ( Alex Biryukov, Adi Shamir, ASIACRYPT 2000)
  • Software-Hardware Trade-offs: application to A5/1 Cryptanalysis (Thomas Pornin, Jacques Stern, CHES 2000)
  • A Hardware-Based Attack on the A5/1 Stream Cipher (Jörg Keller and Birgit Seitz, 2001)
  • On the Efficiency of the Clock Control Guessing Attack (Erik Zenner, eprint 2002/079)
  • Another attack on A5/1 (P. Ekdahl, T. Johansson, IEEE IT 2003)
  • Instant Ciphertext-Only Cryptanalysis of GSM (Elad Barkan, Eli Biham, Nathan Keller, Crypto 2003)
  • An Improved Correlation Attack on A5 (Johansson, Maximov, SAC 2004)
• Theses
  • Complexity Analysis of Hardware-Assisted Attacks on A5/1 (Emilia Käsper, University of Tartu, 2006)
• Other GSM/cellular encryption papers
  • Enhancing Security in GSM (Chenthurvasan Duraiappan, Yuliang Zheng, ICS 1994)
  • Cryptanalysis of the Cellular Message Encryption Algorithm ( David Wagner, Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, 1997)
  • Reducing the collision probability of Alleged Comp128 (Helena Handschuh, Pascal Paillier)
• Implementations
  • A pedagogical implementation of A5/1 (Copyright (C) 1998-1999)
• Surveys
  • Attacks against A5 (Lauri Tarkkala, Helsinki UT, 2001)
• Link farms
  • (Non-exhaustive) List of Stream Ciphers: A5 (Joe Lano)
  • GSM Security Papers

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