@inbook{c9f77f41c41c4f30a6c83d20409de2e8,
title = "The Salsa20 family of stream ciphers",
abstract = "Salsa20 is a family of 256-bit stream ciphers designed in 2005 and submitted to eSTREAM, the ECRYPT Stream Cipher Project. Salsa20 has progressed to the third round of eSTREAM without any changes. The 20-round stream cipher Salsa20/20 is consistently faster than AES and is recommended by the designer for typical cryptographic applications. The reduced-round ciphers Salsa20/12 and Salsa20/8 are among the fastest 256-bit stream ciphers available and are recommended for applications where speed is more important than confidence. The fastest known attacks use ˜¿2153 simple operations against Salsa20/7, ˜¿2249 simple operations against Salsa20/8, and ˜¿2255 simple operations against Salsa20/9, Salsa20/10, etc. In this paper, the Salsa20 designer presents Salsa20 and discusses the decisions made in the Salsa20 design.",
author = "D.J. Bernstein",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-68351-3\_8",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-540-68350-6",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "84--97",
editor = "M. Robshaw and O. Billet",
booktitle = "New stream cipher designs: the eSTREAM finalists",
address = "Germany",
}