A Security Evaluation of Whitenoise

David Wagner

Paper 2003/218

A Security Evaluation of Whitenoise

David Wagner

Abstract

This report studies the security of Whitenoise, a stream cipher invented by BSB Utilities Inc. http://bsbutil.com "Even if we hypothesized the existence of some magic computer that could test a trillion trillion key trials per second (very unlikely!), and even if we could place a trillion trillion such computers somewhere throughout the universe (even more unlikely!), and even if we were willing to wait a trillion trillion years (not a chance!), then the probability that we would discover the correct key would be negligible (about (1/2)^1340, which is unimaginably small)."

Note: This is a security evaluation of a new generation stream cipher called Whitenoise. This technology has some unique features and strengths. To date there have been no systemic problems with this technology at all.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Secret-key cryptography
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Contact author(s): brisson @ lightspeed ca
History: 2003-10-10: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2003/218
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2003/218,
      author = {David Wagner},
      title = {A Security Evaluation of Whitenoise},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2003/218},
      year = {2003},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/218}
}