Panama (cryptography)

Panama is a cryptographic primitive which can be used both as a hash function and a stream cipher, but its hash function mode of operation has been broken and is not suitable for cryptographic use. Based on StepRightUp, it was designed by Joan Daemen and Craig Clapp and presented in the paper Fast Hashing and Stream Encryption with PANAMA on the Fast Software Encryption (FSE) conference 1998. The cipher has influenced several other designs, for example MUGI and SHA-3.

"PANAMA" redirects here. For the nation, see Panama.
Panama (cipher)
General
DesignersJoan Daemen,
Craig Clapp
First publishedDecember 1998
Derived fromStepRightUp
SuccessorsMUGI, RadioGatún, SHA-3
Cipher detail
Key sizes256 bits

The primitive can be used both as a hash function and a stream cipher. The stream cipher uses a 256-bit key and the performance of the cipher is very good reaching 2 cycles per byte.

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