Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60673068 (国家自然科学基金); the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No.2004CB318004 (国家重点基础研究发展计划(973))
This paper studies the security of a newly proposed stream cipher structure based on linear feedback shift register, nonlinear feedback shift register and filter Boolean functions. A distinguishing attack on this structure is presented. An example is illustrated to show the effectiveness of this attack. This new attack suggests that this new stream cipher structure has potential security weakness.