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The Eris hybrid cipher

Authors:
Sandy Harris
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/081
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Abstract: An earlier paper by the same author (IACR Eprint 2008/473) suggested combining a block cipher and a stream cipher to get a strong hybrid cipher. This paper proposes a specific cipher based on those ideas, using the HC-128 stream cipher and a tweakable block cipher based on Serpent.
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@misc{eprint-2010-22982,
  title={The Eris hybrid cipher},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={secret-key cryptography / hybrid cipher, block cipher},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/081},
  note={ sandyinchina@gmail.com 14654 received 14 Feb 2010},
  author={Sandy Harris},
  year=2010
}