Keystream sequences should look as random as possible, i.e. should present no logical pattern to be exploited in cryptographic attacks. The generalized self-shrinking generator, a sequence generator based on irregular decimation, produces a family of sequences with good cryptographic properties. In this work, we display a detailed analysis on the randomness of the sequences resulting from the concatenation of elements of this family. We apply the most important batteries of statistical and graphical tests providing powerful results and a new method to construct sequences with good cryptographic properties.
Acknowledgements
This research has been partially supported by the Comunidad de Madrid (Spain) under project CYNAMON (P2018/TCS-4566), also co-funded by Fondo Social Europeo (FSE) and European Union Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) funds. The third author was partially supported by Spanish grant VIGROB-287 of the Universitat d’Alacant.