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Salsa20

Salsa20 (formerly known as Snuffle 2005) and the closely related ChaCha are stream ciphers developed by Daniel J. Bernstein. Salsa20, the original cipher, was designed in 2005, then later submitted to the eSTREAM European Union cryptographic validation process by Bernstein. ChaCha is a modification of Salsa20 published in 2008. It uses a new round…

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Certification
eSTREAM portfolio
Derived from
Snuffle
Designers
Daniel J. Bernstein
First published
2007 (designed 2005)
Key sizes
128 or 256 bits
Related to
Rumba20

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Cryptanalysis of Salsa20

ChaCha variant

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Salsa20

Nodes60
Edges59
Triples74
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033333
Components1

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Salsa20

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related to External links · 17
Salsa20 → ChaCha Cipher Family, CrypTool, Demo, DeploymentImplementation, Didactical Visualization, Excel, Excel Example, PDF, Project, Salsa20 Archived, Salsa20/12, Salsa20/8, Snuffle, The, Tim Wambach, Usage, Wayback MachineThe ChaCha
related to Cryptanalysis of Salsa20 · 15
Salsa20 → As, Berbain, Bernstein's US, Biasse, Fischer, In, Meier, Paul Crowley, Robshaw, Salsa20/12, Salsa20/20, Salsa20/5, Salsa20/6, Salsa20/7, This
related to ChaCha variant · 14
Salsa20 → Bernstein, But ChaCha, ChaCha, ChaCha's, ChaCha6, ChaCha7, In, Like Salsa20, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, RFC, The Aumasson, Wikisource-logo
related to XChaCha · 7
Salsa20 → Although, Bernstein, ChaCha, Output, Use, XChaCha, XSalsa20
related to eSTREAM selection of Salsa20 · 5
Salsa20 → Focus, Phase, Profile, Salsa20/12, The
related to XSalsa20 with 192-bit nonce · 4
Salsa20 → Bernstein, In, Specifically, XSalsa20
Certification · 1
Salsa20 → eSTREAM portfolio
Derived from · 1
Salsa20 → Snuffle
Designers · 1
Salsa20 → Daniel J. Bernstein
First published · 1
Salsa20 → 2007 (designed 2005)

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chacha key estream chacha20 bernstein nonce rounds words attack also stream bits published function cryptanalysis rfc 128-bit round input used

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Salsa20CertificationeSTREAM portfolio1.00infobox
Salsa20Derived fromSnuffle1.00infobox
Salsa20DesignersDaniel J. Bernstein1.00infobox
Salsa20First published2007 (designed 2005)1.00infobox
Salsa20Key sizes128 or 256 bits1.00infobox
Salsa20Related toRumba201.00infobox
Salsa20Rounds201.00infobox
Salsa20Speed3.91 cpb on an Intel Core 2 Duo1.00infobox
Salsa20State size512 bits1.00infobox
Salsa20StructureARX1.00infobox
Salsa20SuccessorsChaCha1.00infobox
Salsa20is aquarter-roundQR0.90text

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