| General | |
|---|---|
| Designers | N.D. Goots, A.A. Moldovyan and N.A. Moldovyan |
| First published | 2001 |
| Successors | CIKS-1 |
| Cipher detail | |
| Key sizes | 256 bits |
| Block sizes | 64 bits |
| Structure | Feistel-like network |
| Rounds | 12 |
| Best publiccryptanalysis | |
| Slide attack using 217 chosen plaintexts | |
Incryptography,Spectr-H64 is ablock cipher designed in 2001 by N. D. Goots, A. A. Moldovyan and N. A. Moldovyan. It relies heavily on thepermutation of individual bits, so is much better suited to implementation in hardware than in software.
The algorithm has ablock size of 64 bits andkey size of 256 bits. It uses a 12-round structure in which half of the block determines the transformation of the other half in each round, similar to aFeistel cipher orRC5. This same basic design was repeated in its successor,CIKS-1.
An analysis of Spectr-H64 was presented in 2002 by Selçuk Kavut and Melek D Yücel of the Middle East Technical University, showing a method of using adifferential attack to retrieve half of the key bits when a single round is used. Using this method, they then presented aslide attack that requires 217 chosen plaintexts to return all key bits on the full 12 rounds.
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