Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2002/185

Turing, a fast stream cipher

Greg Rose and Philip Hawkes

Abstract: This paper proposes the Turing stream cipher. Turing offers up to 256-bit key strength, and is designed for extremely efficient software implementation. It combines an LFSR generator based on that of SOBER with a keyed mixing function reminiscent of a block cipher round. Aspects of the block mixer round have been derived from Rijndael, Twofish, tc24 and SAFER.

Category / Keywords: secret-key cryptography / Stream cipher, LFSR, Filter generator

Publication Info: Accepted to FSE 2003, Lund, SE.

Date: received 1 Dec 2002, last revised 16 Nov 2003

Contact author: ggr at qualcomm com

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Note: Georny Lou pointed out an error in our derivation of the binary equivalent polynomial, corrected in this paper.

Version: 20031117:054829 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2002/185

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