On the use of continued fractions for stream ciphers

Amadou Moctar Kane

Paper 2013/319

On the use of continued fractions for stream ciphers

Amadou Moctar Kane

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new approach to stream ciphers. This method draws its strength from public key algorithms such as RSA and the development in continued fractions of certain irrational numbers to produce a pseudo-random stream. Although the encryption scheme proposed in this paper is based on a hard mathematical problem, its use is fast.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Secret-key cryptography
Publication info: Published elsewhere. A short version of this paper has been published in Proceedings of Security and Management 2009
Keywords: continued fractions cryptography pseudo-random symmetric-key encryption stream cipher
Contact author(s): amadou1 @ gmail com
History: 2013-06-02: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2013/319
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/319,
      author = {Amadou Moctar Kane},
      title = {On the use of continued fractions for stream ciphers},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2013/319},
      year = {2013},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/319}
}