Web Directory

» AES Algorithm (Rijndael) Information
   This is NIST's home page for the Rijndael block cipher, now the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It has links to the specification and source code.
   http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/aes/rijndael/

» BMGL: Synchronous Key-stream Generator
   Describes the BMGL stream cipher developed by Johan Hastad of the Royal Inst. of Technology and Mats Naslund of Ericsson Research in Sweden. BMGL, like Snow2, uses features of the Rijndael cipher. Source code is not available here.
   https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/nessie/workshop/submissions/bmgl4.pdf

» CAST 128 Block Cipher
   A text-file specification for CAST-128, a freely available 128-bit block cipher.
   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2144

» CS2 Block Cipher
   This PDF document describes to CS2 block cipher developed by Tom St Denis. CS2 is based on the CS cipher developed by Serge Vaudenay and takes advantage of work St Denis has done on the pseudo-Hadamard transform. Source code is not included, but test vect
   http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/085.pdf

» Camellia
   Information about the block cipher jointly developed by NTT and Mitsubishi Electric in Japan in 2000. C source code is also provided.
   http://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/camellia/

» FastFlex : A Secure Cryptographic Function
   Sourceforge project for FastFlex, a suite of hash functions and stream ciphers. Links to documentation and source code.
   http://fastflex.sourceforge.net/

» German Enigma Cipher
   Description and examples of the enigma cipher.
   http://frode.home.cern.ch/frode/crypto/Shaylor/bombe.html

» HC-256 Stream Cipher
   HC-256 is a stream cipher developed by Hongjun Wu at the Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore. It uses a very large state data set which it updates and reads from pseudo-randomly. It seems similar in basic design to SN3 and also borrows some ideas
   http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/092.pdf

» Helix Stream Cipher
   Document describes the Helix stream cipher, devised by Niels Ferguson, Doug Whiting, Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, Stefan Lucks, and Tadayoshi Kohno. The cipher produces a MAC for every plaintext it encrypts. Source code is not included in this document, b
   http://www.macfergus.com/helix/helix.pdf

» Hiji Bij Bij
   Describes a stream cipher devised by Palash Sarkar and the Cryptology Research Group at the India Statistical Institute. Like many new stream ciphers, it has two parts to its state, one part updated linearly and one part updated non-linearly. The linear p
   http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/014.ps

» IBM's MARS Block Cipher.
   The company's AES proposal using 128 bit blocks. Contains descriptions, pseudocode and test vectors.
   http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/security.mars.html

» ISAAC - a fast cryptographic random number generator
   A stream cipher developed by Robert Jenkins. It was inspired by RC4.
   http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaacafa.html

» Noekeon block cipher
   A block cipher with a block length and a key length of 128 bits.
   http://gro.noekeon.org/

» RC6 Home at RSA
   Block cipher proposed by RSA as an AES candidate.
   http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2512

» Rabbit Stream Cipher
   The Rabbit stream cipher was developed by CRYPTICO A/S in Denmark. It runs in synchronous mode, uses a 128-bit key, and 513 bits of state data. This PDF file includes C source code for Rabbit.
   http://www.cryptico.com/Files/filer/rabbit_fse.pdf

» Rail Fence Cipher
   Description and examples of rail fence ciphers.
   http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/railfence.html

» Scream: A Software Efficient Stream Cipher
   Describes the Scream stream cipher developed at IBM by Shai Halevi, Don Coppersmith, and Charanjit Jutla. Scream is based on SEAL. Source code is not available here.
   http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/019.pdf

» Serpent Block Cipher Homepage
   Describes the 128-bit block cipher designed to replace DES. It was a finalist in the AES competition.
   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/serpent.html

» Sosemanuk Stream Cipher
   Sosemanuk borrows features of the Snow stream cipher and the Serpent block cipher. The C source code for the cipher is available from the Ecrypt site.
   http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/ciphers/sosemanuk/sosemanuk.pdf

» TEA - a Tiny Encryption Algorithm
   TEA is a very small, efficient algorithm offering a moderate level of security
   ftp://ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/papers/djw-rmn/djw-rmn-tea.html

» The Blowfish Encryption Algorithm
   A freely available symmetric block cipher designed by Bruce Schneier as a drop-in replacement for DES or IDEA. Allows variable-length keys up to 448 bits.
   http://www.schneier.com/blowfish.html

» The CARACACHS Stream Cipher
   Contains source code in C for this stream cipher which uses 160 to 2048-bit keys. Short keys are fast on 32-bit processors.
   http://membres.multimania.fr/caracachs/caracachs.htm

» The Mugi Stream Cipher
   Describes the MUGI stream cipher developed at Hitachi. MUGI is similar to, and based on, Panama. The link here is to the English home page of the MUGI site. Source code is not available at this site.
   http://www.sdl.hitachi.co.jp/crypto/mugi/index-e.html

» The Snow Stream Cipher
   Describes the Snow stream cipher: both Snow 1.0 submitted to the NESSIE project and Snow 2.0. Snow is the work of Patrik Ekdahl and Thomas Johansson of the I.T. Dept. at Lund Univ., Sweden. The C source code for Snow is also provided.
   http://www.it.lth.se/cryptology/snow/

» Twofish
   A freely available 128-bit block cipher designed by Counterpane Systems (Bruce Schneier et al.).
   http://www.schneier.com/twofish.html

» VMPC function and stream cipher
   Describes the VMPC one-way function and a stream cipher based on it, designed by Bartosz Zoltak. Pseudo code and test-vectors are available here. The algorithm is similar to RC4 and VERY simple.
   http://www.vmpcfunction.com

» Zodiac Killer Ciphers
   The Zodiac Killer terrorized the San Francisco Bay area in the 1960s and 70s and claimed to have killed over 30 people. This site discusses the unsolved cipher messages linked with the killings.
   http://www.zodiologists.com/zodiac_killer_ciphers.html