cr.yp.to update
[email protected] 28 Sep 2005 19:18:45 -0000
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streamciphers.html | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff -ru .old-crypto/streamciphers.html cr.yp.to/streamciphers.html --- .old-crypto/streamciphers.html 2005-09-24 02:25:49.000000000 -0400 +++ cr.yp.to/streamciphers.html 2005-09-28 03:04:53.000000000 -0400 @@ -256,6 +256,10 @@ <p> Initial impression: Timing-attack problems, like AES. +<p> +Englund and Maximov state an attack on Dragon-256 +using 2^155 words of keystream and 2^32 blocks of memory. +<b>No response yet from the authors.</b> <h2>Notes on NLS</h2> Page 17 of the NLS document reports, for a 1500MHz Centrino, @@ -388,6 +392,14 @@ <h2>Notes on Achterbahn</h2> 10-byte key. Authors don't report software speeds. +<p> +Johnasson, Meier, and Muller write: +``We present several attacks which break the cipher +faster than a brute force attack.'' +I disagree: the attack uses 2^73 steps +on a machine with 2^40 bits of memory, +so it is much slower than a brute-force machine of the same size. +<b>No response yet from the authors.</b> <h2>Notes on SFINKS</h2> 10-byte key. Authors don't report software speeds.