{"id":239,"date":"2013-01-30T21:27:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2013-01-30T21:27:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:27:55","slug":"nsa-introduces-two-new-lightweight-ciphers-simon-and-speck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/30\/nsa-introduces-two-new-lightweight-ciphers-simon-and-speck\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA introduces two new lightweight ciphers (SIMON and SPECK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MIT Media Lab \u2013 2013 Legal Hack-a-thon on Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today we had the privilege of hearing a presentation by Loius Wingers and\u00a0Stefan Treatman-Clark on \u00a0a couple of lightweight ciphers from the NSA. \u00a0These are called SIMON and SPECK. The algorithms are not yet published, but they have a paper (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SimonSpeckPerformance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pdf copy here<\/a>) that shows some numbers on the performance of the proposed ciphers.<\/p>\n<p>The SIMON and SPECK algorithms come in a family that range from 48-bits to 128-bits. \u00a0Since the target deployment area is low-power and low memory devices (i.e. RFID devices, etc), the requirement is that these algorithms do not use more than 2000 gates. The paper has a table showing the GE and throughput.<\/p>\n<p>Louis and Stefan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vtyo4nWGBwk&amp;feature=player_detailpage\" target=\"_blank\">presented SIMON and SPECK<\/a> at the 2013 Legal Hack-a-Thon and \u00a0the MIT Media Lab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Media Lab \u2013 2013 Legal Hack-a-thon on Identity Today we had the privilege of hearing a presentation by Loius Wingers and\u00a0Stefan Treatman-Clark on \u00a0a couple of lightweight ciphers from the NSA. \u00a0These are called SIMON and SPECK. The algorithms are not yet published, but they have a paper (pdf copy here) that shows some <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/30\/nsa-introduces-two-new-lightweight-ciphers-simon-and-speck\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hk6w-3R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}