DOI: 10.7763/IJCTE.2009.V1.46
A New Generation Cryptographic Technique
Abstract—Cryptography is the science of using mathematics to encrypt and decrypt data. In cryptography, SAFER (Secure And Fast Encryption Routine) is the name of a family of block ciphers designed primarily by James Massey (one of the designers of IDEA) on behalf of Cylink Corporation as a non-proprietary cipher. The early SAFER K and SAFER SK designs share the same encryption function, but differ in the number of rounds and the key schedule. More recent versions— SAFER+ and SAFER++ — were submitted as candidates to the AES process and the NESSIE project respectively. All of the algorithms in the SAFER family are unpatented and available for unrestricted use. This is being a Technical Survey paper represents a concrete overview of SAFER appeared in the above context.
Index Terms—Cryptography, cipher, block cipher, AESs.
Swarnendu Mukherjee: Computer Science and Engineering Department, Heritage Institute of Technology, Anandapur Kolkata – 700107, India .
Debashis Ganguly, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Heritage Institute of Technology, Anandapur, Kolkata – 700107, India .
Somnath Naskar:Computer Science and Engineering Department, Heritage Institute of Technology, Anandapur, Kolkata – 700107, India.
Cite: Swarnendu Mukherjee, Debashis Ganguly and Somnath Naskar, "A New Generation Cryptographic Technique," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 284-287, 2009.