--- Encryption in Mobile Communications. ZUC Algorithm.
Author(s): IANCU, Laura; BACIVAROV, Ioan
Author(s) keywords: algorithm, encryption, security, stream cipher, ZUC
Reference keywords: data encryption, information security, sistem security
Abstract:
ZUC is a data stream cipher, easy to implement, one of the fastest algorithms to encrypt messages in mobile communications. Because of the key and initialization vector large size (128-bits), ZUC provides high security and is enough resistant to many types of attacks: Weak Key Attacks, Guess-and-Determine Attacks, Algebraic Attacks, Timing Attacks, but not enough robust to withstand the DPA (Differential Power Analysis) type attack. This article makes an analysis of ZUC algorithm and presents the encryption efficiency, and its vulnerabilities; also it is made a comparison with other algorithms used in telecommunications (SNOW 3G, Kasumi, DES/3DES and AES).
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English title: Encryption in Mobile Communications. ZUC Algorithm.
Original title: Tehnici de criptare în comunicațiile mobile. Algoritmul ZUC.
Author(s): IANCU, Laura; BACIVAROV, Ioan
Article Language: Romanian
Date of Publication: 2013-12-28
Publication: International Journal of Information Security and Cybercrime
ISSN: 2285-9225 e-ISSN: 2286-0096
Digital Object Identifier: 10.19107/IJISC.2013.02.01
Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, Year 2013
Section: Advances in Information Security Research
Page Range: 7-18 (12 pages)
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