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Re: SEAL cipher info requested (something actually list related!)
On Tue, 05 Mar 1996 01:27:24 -0800 (PST), Wei Dai wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Christopher Allen wrote:
>
> > At 4:27 PM 1/27/96, Anonymous wrote:
> > >Anybody have info on the SEAL cipher? I can't find any
> > >descriptions or analysis of it. Refs, proceedings or URLS
> > >would be a good thing.
> >
> > I also am interested in references to it.
>
> I believe it was presented at the first Cambridge security workshop on
> fast software encryption.
Correct. The paper is "A Software Optimized Encryption Algorithm", by
Phillip Rogaway and Don Coppersmith, pp 56-63 of the proceedings.
It is a fast stream cipher. The paper reports encryption rates of 7.2
MBytes/Second on a 486-50.