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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/WIRELESSVITAE.2009.5172566
