Paper 2022/1677

Quagmire ciphers and group theory: What is a Porta cipher?

Thomas Kaeding
Abstract

It is an involutory (self-reciprocal) quagmire 4 cipher. Furthermore, it is isomorphic to a Beaufort. Explicit keys and transformations are provided.

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Preprint.
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kaeding @ blackswan duckdns org
History
2022-12-02: approved
2022-12-01: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/1677
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CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/1677,
      author = {Thomas Kaeding},
      title = {Quagmire ciphers and group theory: What is a Porta cipher?},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/1677},
      year = {2022},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1677}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1677}
}
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