Abstract:

The 2ⁿ-periodic binary sequence with high linear complexity and high k-error linear complexity is defined as an excellent sequence. We design a genetic algorithm for generating excellent sequences and studying their features. Choosing the N-periodic binary sequences, where N=8, 16, 32, k=N/4, we search the resulted sequences by the genetic algorithm with various parameters, and compute the linear complexity profiles of results sequences by using the Lauder-Paterson algorithm, to confirm that the obtained sequences are the real excellent sequences. By numerous experiments, we speculate that the k-error linear complexity of the N-periodic binary excellent sequence meets the formula LC_k(S)≤N-2k+1, when k=N/4、N/8 (we also do experiments on sequences with periods 64, 128 and 256). By the brute-force method we obtain that the proportion of the excellent sequence in all binary sequences of the same period is 1/4.

Key words: stream cipher, periodic sequence, linear complexity, k-error linear complexity