MASHA: low cost authentication with a new stream cipher

  • Authors:
  • Shinsaku Kiyomoto;Matt Henricksen;Wun-She Yap;Yuto Nakano;Kazuhide Fukushima

  • Affiliations:
  • KDDI R & D Laboratories Inc. Saitama, Japan;Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;KDDI R & D Laboratories Inc. Saitama, Japan;KDDI R & D Laboratories Inc. Saitama, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ISC'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Information security
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new high-speed stream cipher called MASHA (Message Authenticated Streaming-encryption Heterogeneous Algorithm) with integrated MAC functionality. It simultaneously encrypts plaintext and produces an authentication tag that assures data and origin integrity. On the Intel Core 2, its speed is 11.92 cycles/byte, which is faster than the time it takes to encrypt and authenticate using well-known primitives SNOW 2.0 and SHA-256 in conjunction. We show that MASHA is secure against all known attacks.