Turing, a fast stream cipher

Greg Rose; Philip Hawkes

Paper 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.

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

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Secret-key cryptography
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Accepted to FSE 2003, Lund, SE.
Keywords: Stream cipher LFSR Filter generator
Contact author(s): ggr @ qualcomm com
History: 2003-11-17: last of 2 revisions; 2002-12-01: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2002/185
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2002/185,
      author = {Greg Rose and Philip Hawkes},
      title = {Turing, a fast stream cipher},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2002/185},
      year = {2002},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2002/185}
}