• DocumentCode
    526630
  • Title

    Flexible block ciphers: Modifying LEX

  • Author

    Henricksen, Matt

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Infocomm Res., A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    9-11 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    630
  • Lastpage
    634
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we review LEX, a stream cipher that harnesses the strength of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) block cipher to produce ciphertext at 2.5 times the speed of the AES. Both AES and LEX have been attacked due to the way that they convert master keys into round keys or state. We consider ways in which to remove the vulnerabilities of LEX without diminishing its throughput. We propose FLEX, a more secure version of LEX that produces keystream at 2.4 times the speed of the underlying block cipher.
  • Keywords
    cryptography; LEX; advanced encryption standard block cipher; ciphertext; fexible block ciphers; stream cipher; Cryptography; AES; LEX; cryptography; security; stream cipher;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT), 2010 3rd IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chengdu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5537-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCSIT.2010.5564740
  • Filename
    5564740