Paper 2003/218

A Security Evaluation of Whitenoise

David Wagner

Abstract

This report studies the security of Whitenoise, a stream cipher invented by BSB Utilities Inc. http://bsbutil.com "Even if we hypothesized the existence of some magic computer that could test a trillion trillion key trials per second (very unlikely!), and even if we could place a trillion trillion such computers somewhere throughout the universe (even more unlikely!), and even if we were willing to wait a trillion trillion years (not a chance!), then the probability that we would discover the correct key would be negligible (about (1/2)^1340, which is unimaginably small)."

Note: This is a security evaluation of a new generation stream cipher called Whitenoise. This technology has some unique features and strengths. To date there have been no systemic problems with this technology at all.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Contact author(s)
brisson @ lightspeed ca
History
2003-10-10: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2003/218
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2003/218,
      author = {David Wagner},
      title = {A Security Evaluation of Whitenoise},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2003/218},
      year = {2003},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/218}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/218}
}
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