The concept of conditional differential cryptanalysis has been applied to NLFSR-based cryptosystems at ASIACRYPT 2010. We improve the technique by using automatic tools to find and analyze the involved conditions. Using these improvements we cryptanalyze the stream cipher Trivium and the KATAN family of lightweight block ciphers. For both ciphers we obtain new cryptanalytic results which are th...

We consider the computation of a few eigenpairs of a generalized eigenvalue problem Ax = λBx with block-tridiagonal matrices, not necessarily symmetric, in the context of Krylov methods. In this kind of computation, it is often necessary to solve a linear system of equations in each iteration of the eigensolver, for instance when B is not the identity matrix or when computing interior eigenvalu...

The effects of bisaramil, a novel diazabicyclononane antiarrhythmic agent, were compared to those of lidocaine, a clinically used class Ib antiarrhythmic agent, on heart, skeletal muscle and brain Na+ channels expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes using a two-electrode voltage clamp. Both bisaramil and lidocaine produced a concentration-dependent tonic block of Na+ current that was most effective...

For any Z2 nearest neighbor shift of finite type X and any integer n ≥ 1, one can define the horizontal strip shift Hn to be the set of configurations on Z × {1, . . . , n} which do not contain any forbidden transitions for X. It is always the case that limn→∞ h (Hn) n = htop(X). In this paper, we use probabilistic methods from interacting particle systems to show that for the Z2 hard square sh...

In this paper, we use a high-order iterated function generated by block cipher as the nonlinear filter to improve the security of stream cipher. Moreover, by combining the published rounds function in block cipher and OFB as the nonlinear functional mode with an extra memory module, we enable to control the nonlinear complexity of the design. This new approach fuses the block cipher operation m...

The power of human language rests upon its intricate links to human cognition. By 3 months of age, listening to language supports infants' ability to form object categories, a building block of cognition. Moreover, infants display a systematic shift between 3 and 4 months - a shift from familiarity to novelty preferences - in their expression of this link between language and core cognitive pro...

In this work, we explore the capability of the mean shift algorithm as a powerful preprocessing tool for improving the quality of spatial data, acquired from airborne scanners, from densely built urban areas. On one hand, high resolution image data corrupted by noise caused by lossy compression techniques are appropriately smoothed while at the same time preserving the optical edges and, on the...

Electrophysiological studies (His bundle recordings and atrial stimulation) were performed in nine patients who manifested periods of both right and left bundle branch block (RBBB and LBBB). In seven of the patients, alternating bundle branch block appeared to reflect intermittent or chronic bundle branch block superimposed on incomplete (but electrocardiographically complete) block of the cont...

A generalization of the semisimplicity concept for polyadic algebraic structures is proposed. If semisimple can be presented in block diagonal matrix form (resulting Wedderburn decomposition), a general given by block-shift matrices. We combine these forms to get shape nonderived ("double" decomposition two kinds). then introduce polyadization (a "polyadic constructor") according which one cons...