General | |
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Designers | Alexis Machado |
First published | 2000 |
Cipher detail | |
Key sizes | 128 bits |
Block sizes | 64 bits |
Rounds | 5 |
Best publiccryptanalysis | |
Differential cryptanalysis can break Nimbus with 256 chosen plaintexts. |
Incryptography,Nimbus is ablock cipher invented byAlexis Machado in 2000. It was submitted to theNESSIE project, but was not selected.
The algorithm uses a 128-bit key. It operates on blocks of 64 bits and consists of 5 rounds ofencryption. The round function is exceedingly simple. In each round the block isXORed with a subkey, the order of its bits is reversed, and then it is multiplied mod 264 by another subkey, which is forced to be odd.[1]
Nimbus was broken byVladimir Furman; he found adifferential attack using only 256 chosen plaintexts.[2]
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