June 2018 archive

Midnight CTF 2018 Finals – Snurre128

In this challenge we have a stream cipher based on LFSR and nonlinear filtering function. It has 128-bit LFSR secret state and we are also given 1600 keystream bits. Our goal is simply to recover the key which is the initial state. Here is the nonlinear filtering function: f(v) = v[0] ^ v[1] ^ v[2] …

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