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eSTREAM is a project to "identify new stream ciphers suitable for widespread adoption",[1][2] organised by the EU ECRYPT network. It was set up as a result of the failure of all six stream ciphers submitted to the NESSIE project. The call for primitives was first issued in November 2004. The project was completed in April 2008. The project was divided into separate phases and the project goal was to find algorithms suitable for different application profiles.

Profiles

The submissions to eSTREAM fall into either or both of two profiles:

Both profiles contain an "A" subcategory (1A and 2A) with ciphers that also provide authentication in addition to encryption. In Phase 3 none of the ciphers providing authentication are being considered (The NLS cipher had authentication removed from it to improve its performance).

eSTREAM portfolio

As of September 2011 the following ciphers make up the eSTREAM portfolio:[3]

Profile 1 (software) Profile 2 (hardware)
HC-128 [1] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine Grain [2] Archived 2008-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
Rabbit [3] Archived 2012-06-13 at the Wayback Machine MICKEY [4] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine
Salsa20/12 [5] Archived 2016-04-05 at the Wayback Machine Trivium [6] Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
SOSEMANUK [7] Archived 2012-04-14 at the Wayback Machine

These are all free for any use. Rabbit was the only one that had a patent pending during the eStream competition, but it was released into the public domain in October 2008.[4]

The original portfolio, published at the end of Phase 3, consisted of the above ciphers plus F-FCSR which was in Profile 2.[5] However, cryptanalysis of F-FCSR [6] led to a revision of the portfolio in September 2008 which removed that cipher.

Phases

Phase 1

Phase 1 included a general analysis of all submissions with the purpose of selecting a subset of the submitted designs for further scrutiny. The designs were scrutinized based on criteria of security, performance (with respect to the block cipher AES—a US Government approved standard, as well as the other candidates), simplicity and flexibility, justification and supporting analysis, and clarity and completeness of the documentation. Submissions in Profile 1 were only accepted if they demonstrated software performance superior to AES-128 in counter mode.

Activities in Phase 1 included a large amount of analysis and presentations of analysis results as well as discussion. The project also developed a framework for testing the performance of the candidates. The framework was then used to benchmark the candidates on a wide variety of systems.

On 27 March 2006, the eSTREAM project officially announced the end of Phase 1.

Phase 2

On 1 August 2006, Phase 2 was officially started. For each of the profiles, a number of algorithms has been selected to be Focus Phase 2 algorithms. These are designs that eSTREAM finds of particular interest and encourages more cryptanalysis and performance evaluation on these algorithms. Additionally a number of algorithms for each profile are accepted as Phase 2 algorithms, meaning that they are still valid as eSTREAM candidates. The Focus 2 candidates will be re-classified every six months.

Phase 3

Phase 3 started in April 2007. Candidates for Profile 1 (software) were:

Candidates for Profile 2 (hardware) were:

Phase 3 ended on 15 April 2008, with the announcement of the candidates that had been selected for the final eSTREAM portfolio. The selected algorithms were:

Submissions

Key
P In the eSTREAM profile
P Formerly in the eSTREAM profile
3 A "Phase 3" cipher
F a "Focus Phase 2" cipher
2 A "Phase 2" cipher
A An "archived" cipher
M Includes a MAC
pat Patented or patent pending; some uses require a license
pat Was pat, now free for any use

In eSTREAM portfolio

The eSTREAM portfolio ciphers are, as of January 2012:[7]

Profile 1
(software)		 Profile 2
(hardware)
128-bit key 80-bit key
HC-128 Grain v1
Rabbit MICKEY 2.0
Salsa20/12 Trivium
SOSEMANUK -

Versions of the eSTREAM portfolio ciphers that support extended key lengths:

Profile 1
(software)		 Profile 2
(hardware)
256-bit key 128-bit key
HC-256 -
- MICKEY-128 2.0
Salsa20/12 -
- -

Note that the 128-bit version of Grain v1 is no longer supported by its designers and has been replaced by Grain-128a. Grain-128a is not considered to be part of the eSTREAM portfolio.

As of December 2008:

Cipher eSTREAM
webpage 		Profile 1
(software) 		Profile 2
(hardware) 		Properties Submitters
Grain [8] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine PF Martin Hell, Thomas Johansson and Willi Meier
HC-256 (HC-128, HC-256) [9] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine PF Hongjun Wu
MICKEY (MICKEY 2.0, MICKEY-128 2.0) [10] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine PF Steve Babbage and Matthew Dodd
Rabbit [11] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine P 2 pat[4] Martin Boesgaard, Mette Vesterager, Thomas Christensen and Erik Zenner
Salsa20 [12] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine PF 2 Daniel J. Bernstein
SOSEMANUK [13] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine P Come Berbain, Olivier Billet, Anne Canteaut,
Nicolas Courtois, Henri Gilbert, Louis Goubin,
Aline Gouget, Louis Granboulan, Cédric Lauradoux,
Marine Minier, Thomas Pornin and Hervé Sibert
Trivium [14] Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine PF Christophe De Cannière and Bart Preneel

No longer in eSTREAM portfolio

This cipher was in the original portfolio but was removed in revision 1, published in September 2008.

Cipher eSTREAM
webpage 		Profile 1
(software) 		Profile 2
(hardware) 		Properties Submitters
F-FCSR (F-FCSR-H v2, F-FCSR-16) [15] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine P Thierry Berger, François Arnault and Cédric Lauradoux

Selected as Phase 3 candidates but not for the portfolio

Cipher eSTREAM
webpage 		Profile 1
(software) 		Profile 2
(hardware) 		Properties Submitters
CryptMT (version 3) [16] Archived 2012-06-18 at the Wayback Machine 3 pat Makoto Matsumoto, Hagita Mariko, Takuji Nishimura
and Matsuo Saito
DECIM (DECIM v2, DECIM-128) [17] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 3 pat Come Berbain, Olivier Billet, Anne Canteaut,
Nicolas Courtois, Blandine Debraize, Henri Gilbert,
Louis Goubin, Aline Gouget, Louis Granboulan,
Cédric Lauradoux, Marine Minier, Thomas Pornin
and Hervé Sibert
Dragon [18] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 3F Ed Dawson, Kevin Chen, Matt Henricksen,
William Millan, Leonie Simpson, HoonJae Lee,
SangJae Moon
Edon80 [19] Archived 2012-09-04 at the Wayback Machine 3 Danilo Gligoroski, Smile Markovski, Ljupco Kocarev
and Marjan Gusev
LEX [20] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 3F 2 Alex Biryukov
MOSQUITO (aka Moustique) [21] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 3 Joan Daemen and Paris Kitsos
NLS (NLSv2, encryption-only) [22] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 3 Gregory Rose, Philip Hawkes, Michael Paddon
and Miriam Wiggers de Vries
Pomaranch (version 3) [23] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 3 Tor Helleseth, Cees Jansen and Alexander Kolosha

Selected as Phase 2 focus candidates but not as Phase 3 candidates

Cipher eSTREAM
webpage 		Profile 1
(software) 		Profile 2
(hardware) 		Properties Submitters
Phelix [24] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine F F M Doug Whiting, Bruce Schneier, Stefan Lucks
and Frédéric Muller
Py [25] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine F Eli Biham and Jennifer Seberry

Selected as Phase 2 candidates but not as focus or Phase 3 candidates

Cipher eSTREAM
webpage 		Profile 1
(software) 		Profile 2
(hardware) 		Properties Submitters
ABC [26] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 2 Vladimir Anashin, Andrey Bogdanov, Ilya Kizhvatov
and Sandeep Kumar
Achterbahn [27] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 2 Berndt Gammel, Rainer Göttfert and Oliver Kniffler
DICING [28] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 2 Li An-Ping
Hermes8 [29] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine A 2 Ulrich Kaiser
NLS [30] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 2 2 Gregory Rose, Philip Hawkes, Michael Paddon
and Miriam Wiggers de Vries
Polar Bear [31] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 2 2 Johan Håstad and Mats Näslund
Pomaranch [32] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine A 2 Cees Jansen and Alexander Kolosha
SFINKS [33][permanent dead link] 2 M An Braeken, Joseph Lano, Nele Mentens,
Bart Preneel and Ingrid Verbauwhede
TSC-3 [34] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine 2 Jin Hong, Dong Hoon Lee, Yongjin Yeom,
Daewan Han and Seongtaek Chee
VEST [35] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine 2 M pat Sean O'Neil, Benjamin Gittins and Howard Landman
WG [36][permanent dead link] 2 Guang Gong and Yassir Nawaz
Yamb [37][permanent dead link] 2 2 LAN Crypto
ZK-Crypt [38][permanent dead link] 2 M pat Carmi Gressel, Ran Granot and Gabi Vago

Not selected as focus or Phase 2 candidates

Cipher eSTREAM
webpage 		Profile 1
(software) 		Profile 2
(hardware) 		Properties Submitters
Frogbit [39] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine A M pat Thierry Moreau
Fubuki [40] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine A pat Makoto Matsumoto, Hagita Mariko, Takuji Nishimura
and Matsuo Saito
MAG [41] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine A A Rade Vuckovac
Mir-1 [42] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine A Alexander Maximov
SSS [43] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine A A M Gregory Rose, Philip Hawkes, Michael Paddon
and Miriam Wiggers de Vries
TRBDK3 YAEA [44] Archived 2012-07-01 at the Wayback Machine A A Timothy Brigham

See also

References

  1. ^ "ECRYPT Call for Stream Cipher Primitives" (version 1.3 ed.). 12 April 2005. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  2. ^ Vincent Rijmen (2010-01-01). "Stream Ciphers and the eSTREAM Project" (PDF).
  3. ^ "The eSTREAM Portfolio (rev. 1)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-13. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
  4. ^ a b Archived copy Archived 2009-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "The eSTREAM Project - eSTREAM Phase 3". www.ecrypt.eu.org.
  6. ^ M. Hell and T. Johansson. Breaking the F-FCSR-H stream cipher in Real Time. In J. Pieprzyk, editor, Proceedings of Asiacrypt 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, to appear.
  7. ^ "ECRYPT II" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2013.

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