Aaron D Goldman on "Spritz—a spongy RC4-like stream cipher and hash function"
Channel: Aaron Goldman
Date: 2021-03-12

Aaron D Goldman
Security engineer

Aaron is a security engineer at Twitter with a history of protecting distributed systems and microservices. He has previously worked on radar systems for the US Department of Defense, Anti Abuse at Google, and Runtime Application Self Protection at tCell. In his spare time, he is building a new internet out of immutable data.

Paper

Spritz—a spongy RC4-like stream cipher and hash function
This note reconsiders the design of the stream cipher RC4, and proposes an improved variant, which we call “Spritz” (since the output comes in fine drops rather than big blocks.)

https://github.com/AaronGoldman/spritz/blob/master/RS14.pdf

Topic: Aaron D Goldman on "Spritz—a spongy RC4-like stream cipher and hash function"
Time: Oct 22, 2020 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)