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A Comparison of Diffusion Properties of Salsa, ChaCha, and MCC Core

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Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC 2016)

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Salsa Core, ChaCha Core, and MCC (Modified ChaCha) Core are cryptographic primitives that take 64-byte input and mix this input to generate 64-byte output. Both Salsa and ChaCha cores, have been used to generate stream ciphers. Salsa is also listed as one of the eSTREAM profile cipher. This paper compares the diffusion properties of all these three cryptographic primitives and share the results. Comparison of Quarter rounds of all these competing cores had been done already but the Column and Row/Diagonal rounds of these cores differ considerably and comparison of full Double rounds of these cores is essential to determine their relative performance. Based on the diffusion characteristics and behavior of these cores, this study proposes alternative rotation distances for better diffusion. Comparative analysis reflects that MCC core performs better than both Salsa and ChaCha core.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

    Rajeev Sobti

  2. Division of Research and Development, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

    G. Geetha

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  1. IBM ZURICH RESEARCH LABORATORY, IBM ZURICH RESEARCH LABORATORY, RUESCHLIKON, Switzerland

    Peter Mueller

  2. Technology and Management, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala, India

    Sabu M. Thampi

  3. Temple University, New York, New York, USA

    Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan

  4. Computer Science, University of Waikato Computer Science, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Ryan Ko

  5. Deakin University , Burwood, Victoria, Australia

    Robin Doss

  6. University of the West of Scotland , Paisley, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Jose M. Alcaraz Calero

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Sobti, R., Geetha, G. (2016). A Comparison of Diffusion Properties of Salsa, ChaCha, and MCC Core. In: Mueller, P., Thampi, S., Alam Bhuiyan, M., Ko, R., Doss, R., Alcaraz Calero, J. (eds) Security in Computing and Communications. SSCC 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 625. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2738-3_8

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