Scream: A Software-Efficient Stream Cipher

  • Authors:
  • Shai Halevi;Don Coppersmith;Charanjit S. Jutla

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FSE '02 Revised Papers from the 9th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We report on the design of Scream, a new software-efficient stream cipher, which was designed to be a "more secure SEAL". Following SEAL, the design of Scream resembles in many ways a block-cipher design. The new cipher is roughly as fast as SEAL, but we believe that it offers a significantly higher security level. In the process of designing this cipher, we re-visit the SEAL design paradigm, exhibiting some tradeoffs and limitations.