• DocumentCode
    2662152
  • Title

    Alamout: A new synchronous stream cipher with authentication

  • Author

    Atani, Reza Ebrahimi ; Mirzakuchaki, Sattar ; Atani, Shahabaddin Ebrahimi

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. Eng. Dept., Iran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tehran, Iran
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    17-20 May 2009
  • Firstpage
    886
  • Lastpage
    890
  • Abstract
    This paper specifies Alamout, a new hardware oriented synchronous stream cipher with an associated authentication mechanism. The design is small in hardware and it targets environments with limited resources. Alamout supports key size of 80 bits and IV size of 128 bits. The Alamout cipher has been designed to produce keystream with guaranteed randomness properties. Simulation with ENT randomness test program confirms randomness of output keystream with very good results.
  • Keywords
    cryptography; Alamout; associated authentication mechanism; hardware oriented synchronous stream cipher; Authentication; Clocks; Cryptography; Data security; Hardware; Linear feedback shift registers; Mathematics; Random number generation; Software performance; Testing; Alamout; Authentication Encryption; ENT; Stream cipher;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology, 2009. Wireless VITAE 2009. 1st International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Aalborg
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4066-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4067-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WIRELESSVITAE.2009.5172566
  • Filename
    5172566