Paper 2021/1439

An Addendum to the ZUC-256 Stream Cipher

ZUC Design Team

Abstract

ZUC-256 is a stream cipher, together with AES-256 and SNOW-V, proposed as the core primitive in future set of 3GPP confidentiality and integrity algorithms for the upcoming 5G applications which offer the 256-bit security. \\ While the original initialization scheme of ZUC-256 can work with a 256-bit key and an IV of length up to 184 bits, we describe a new initialization scheme of ZUC-256 that supports an IV of the exact 128 bits in this paper. Compared to the original initialization scheme, this new key/IV setup algorithm avoids the division of the whole key/IV byte and provides a simple and natural-looking initialization scheme for ZUC-256.

Note: This paper describes a new initialization scheme of ZUC-256 with 128-bit IV and its security analysis done by the ZUC design team.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
Keywords
5GStream ciphersZUC256-bit security.
Contact author(s)
martin_zhangbin @ hotmail com
History
2021-10-27: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/1439
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1439,
      author = {ZUC Design Team},
      title = {An Addendum to the {ZUC}-256 Stream Cipher},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/1439},
      year = {2021},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1439}
}
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