English

AEAD Modes for ZUC Family Stream Ciphers

Cryptography and Security 2021-11-10 v1

Abstract

In order to improve the efficiency of using ZUC primitives, we give two AEAD (Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) modes for them, ZUC-GXM and ZUC-MUR. They are suitable for ZUC (ZUC-128) and two cases of ZUC-256. The former is a nonce-based AEAD, which is following the GCM framework. The latter is a nonce misuse-resistant one which is based on the framework of SIV variance, providing more robust applications for ZUC family stream ciphers.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.05117,
  title  = {AEAD Modes for ZUC Family Stream Ciphers},
  author = {Hongli Li and Yonghui Wang and Yongbiao Ma and Wenyi Jia and Liang Bai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05117},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

13 pages, 9 figures

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