Pike (cipher)

The Pike stream cipher was invented by Ross Anderson to be a "leaner and meaner" version of FISH after he broke FISH in 1994; the name is a humorous allusion to the Pike fish. The cipher combines ideas from A5 with the Lagged Fibonacci generators used in FISH. It is about 10% faster than FISH, yet believed to be much stronger. It potentially has a huge key length, and no attacks have been published as of 2004.

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Stream ciphers edit
Algorithms: RC4 | A5/1 | A5/2 | Chameleon | FISH | Helix | ISAAC | LEVIATHAN | MUGI | Panama | Pike | SEAL | SOBER | SOBER-128 | WAKE
Theory: Shrinking generator

See also: Pike (cipher), 1994, A5/1, A5/2, A5 (cryptography), As of 2004, Cryptography