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Towards a general RC4-like keystream generator

Gong, G ; Gupta, K C ; Hell, Martin LU and Nawaz, Y (2005) Information Security and Cryptology First SKLOIS Conference, CISC 2005 3822. p.162-174
Abstract
RC4 was designed in 1987 when 8-bit and 16-bit processors were commercially available. Today, most processors use 32-bit or 64-bit words but using original RC4 with 32/64 bits is infeasible due to the large memory constraints and the number of operations in the key scheduling algorithm. In this paper we propose a new 32/64-bit RC4-like keystream generator. The proposed generator produces 32 or 64 bits in each iteration and can be implemented in software with reasonable memory requirements. It has a huge internal state and offers higher resistance to state recovery attacks than the original 8-bit RC4. Further, on a 32-bit processor the generator is 3.1 times faster than original RC4. We also show that it can resist attacks that are... (More)
RC4 was designed in 1987 when 8-bit and 16-bit processors were commercially available. Today, most processors use 32-bit or 64-bit words but using original RC4 with 32/64 bits is infeasible due to the large memory constraints and the number of operations in the key scheduling algorithm. In this paper we propose a new 32/64-bit RC4-like keystream generator. The proposed generator produces 32 or 64 bits in each iteration and can be implemented in software with reasonable memory requirements. It has a huge internal state and offers higher resistance to state recovery attacks than the original 8-bit RC4. Further, on a 32-bit processor the generator is 3.1 times faster than original RC4. We also show that it can resist attacks that are successful on the original RC4. The generator is suitable for high speed software encryption. (Less)
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stream ciphers, random shuffle, keystream generator, RC4
host publication
Information Security and Cryptology / Lecture notes in computer science
volume
3822
pages
162 - 174
publisher
Springer
conference name
Information Security and Cryptology First SKLOIS Conference, CISC 2005
conference location
Beijing, China
conference dates
2005-12-15 - 2005-12-17
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  • wos:000234882000014
  • scopus:33744940833
ISSN
1611-3349
0302-9743
ISBN
978-3-540-30855-3
DOI
10.1007/11599548
language
English
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  author       = {{Gong, G and Gupta, K C and Hell, Martin and Nawaz, Y}},
  booktitle    = {{Information Security and Cryptology / Lecture notes in computer science}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-540-30855-3}},
  issn         = {{1611-3349}},
  keywords     = {{stream ciphers; random shuffle; keystream generator; RC4}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{162--174}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  title        = {{Towards a general RC4-like keystream generator}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11599548}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/11599548}},
  volume       = {{3822}},
  year         = {{2005}},
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