The stream cipher Salsa20 was introduced by Bernstein in 2005 as a candidate in the eSTREAM project, accompanied by the reduced versions Salsa20/8 and Salsa20/12. ChaCha is a varia...
Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Simon Fischer 0002, Shahra...
MD4 is a hash function introduced by Rivest in 1990. It is still used in some contexts, and the most commonly used hash function (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2) are based on the design princip...
Chosen-plaintext attacks on private-key encryption schemes are currently modeled by giving an adversary access to an oracle that encrypts a given message m using random coins that ...
Abstract. A corrector is used to reduce or eliminate statistical weakness of a physical random number generator. A description of linear corrector generalizing post-processing desc...
Abstract. In this paper we present an efficient algorithm for the retrieval of the RC4 secret key, given an internal state. This algorithm is several orders of magnitude faster tha...
In this paper, we point out some weaknesses in the Salsa20 core function that could be exploited to obtain up to 231 collisions for its full (20 rounds) version. We first find an i...
In this article we find collisions for step-reduced SHA-256. We develop a differential that holds with high probability if the message satisfies certain conditions. We solve the eq...