The Grain family of stream ciphers
Author
Editor
- Matthew Robshaw
- Olivier Billet
Summary, in English
Abstract in Undetermined
A new family of stream ciphers, Grain, is proposed. Two variants, a 80-bit and a 128-bit variant are specified, denoted Grain and Grain-128 respectively. The designs target hardware environments where gate count, power consumption and memory are very limited. Both variants are based on two shift registers and a nonlinear output function. The ciphers also have the additional feature that the speed can be easily increased at the expense of extra hardware.
A new family of stream ciphers, Grain, is proposed. Two variants, a 80-bit and a 128-bit variant are specified, denoted Grain and Grain-128 respectively. The designs target hardware environments where gate count, power consumption and memory are very limited. Both variants are based on two shift registers and a nonlinear output function. The ciphers also have the additional feature that the speed can be easily increased at the expense of extra hardware.
Publishing year
2008
Language
English
Pages
179-190
Publication/Series
New Stream Cipher Designs - The eSTREAM Finalists
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Status
Published
Research group
- Crypto and Security
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1611-3349
- ISSN: 0302-9743
- ISBN: 978-3-540-68350-6