Snow
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- This article is about the stream cipher. For the MI5 agent, see Arthur Owens.
SNOW 1.0, originally simply SNOW, was submitted to the NESSIE project. The cipher has no known intellectual property or other restrictions. The cipher works on 32-bit words and supports both 128- and 256-bit keys. The cipher consists of a combination of a LFSR and a Finite State Machine (FSM) where the LFSR also feeds the next state function of the FSM. The cipher has a short initialization phase and very good performance on both 32-bit processors and in hardware.
During the NESSIE evaluation weaknesses was discovered and SNOW was therefore not included in the NESSIE suite of algorithms. The authors has developed a new version, version 2.0 of the cipher, that solves the weaknesses and improves the performance.
SNOW has been used in the ESTREAM project as a reference cipher for the performance evaluation.
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| Misc: eSTREAM |
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