cr.yp.to update

[email protected] 28 Sep 2005 19:18:45 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 streamciphers.html |   12 ++++++++++++
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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.