The Salsa20 Family of Stream Ciphers. Bernstein, D. J. 4986 LNCS:84–97.
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Salsa20 is a family of 256-bit stream ciphers designed in 2005 and submitted to eSTREAM, the ECRYPT Stream Cipher Project. Salsa20 has progressed to the third round of eSTREAM without any changes. The 20-round stream cipher Salsa20/20 is consistently faster than AES and is recommended by the designer for typical cryptographic applications. The reduced-round ciphers Salsa20/12 and Salsa20/8 are among the fastest 256-bit stream ciphers available and are recommended for applications where speed is more important than confidence. The fastest known attacks use ≈ 2153 simple operations against Salsa20/7, ≈ 2249 simple operations against Salsa20/8, and ≈ 2255 simple operations against Salsa20/9, Salsa20/10, etc. In this paper, the Salsa20 designer presents Salsa20 and discusses the decisions made in the Salsa20 design.
@article{bernsteinSalsa20FamilyStream2008,
  title = {The Salsa20 Family of Stream Ciphers},
  volume = {4986 LNCS},
  issn = {03029743},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-68351-3_8},
  abstract = {Salsa20 is a family of 256-bit stream ciphers designed in 2005 and submitted to eSTREAM, the ECRYPT Stream Cipher Project. Salsa20 has progressed to the third round of eSTREAM without any changes. The 20-round stream cipher Salsa20/20 is consistently faster than AES and is recommended by the designer for typical cryptographic applications. The reduced-round ciphers Salsa20/12 and Salsa20/8 are among the fastest 256-bit stream ciphers available and are recommended for applications where speed is more important than confidence. The fastest known attacks use ≈ 2153 simple operations against Salsa20/7, ≈ 2249 simple operations against Salsa20/8, and ≈ 2255 simple operations against Salsa20/9, Salsa20/10, etc. In this paper, the Salsa20 designer presents Salsa20 and discusses the decisions made in the Salsa20 design.},
  journaltitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
  date = {2008},
  pages = {84--97},
  author = {Bernstein, Daniel J.},
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}

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