Paper 2003/185

VMPC Stream Cipher

Bartosz Zoltak

Abstract

The VMPC Stream Cipher is a simple encryption algorithm, designed as a proposed practical application of the VMPC one-way function. The general structure of the Cipher is based on an internal 256-element permutation. The VMPC Cipher, together with its Key Scheduling Algorithm, were designed in particular to eliminate some of the known weaknesses characteristic of the alleged RC4 keystream generator.

Note: The paper describes a stream cipher designed by Bartosz Zoltak as a practical application of the VMPC one-way function. New analyses results have been included

Metadata
Available format(s)
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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Summary presented at the CRYPTO 2003 Rump Session together with the VMPC one-way function (by Mr. Stuart Haber)
Keywords
stream cipherskeystream generatorsRC4
Contact author(s)
bzoltak @ vmpcfunction com
History
2003-11-09: last of 3 revisions
2003-09-08: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2003/185
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2003/185,
      author = {Bartosz Zoltak},
      title = {VMPC Stream Cipher},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2003/185},
      year = {2003},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/185}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/185}
}
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