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In cryptography, the Iraqi block cipher was a block cipher published in C source code form by anonymous FTP upload around July 1999, and widely distributed on Usenet. It is a five round unbalanced Feistel cipher operating on a 256 bit block with a 160 bit key. The source code shows that the algorithm operates on blocks of 32 bytes (or 256 bits). That's four times larger than DES or 3DES (8 bytes) and twice as big as Twofish or AES (16 bytes).It also shows that the key size can vary from 160 to 2048 bits.

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  • In cryptography, the Iraqi block cipher was a block cipher published in C source code form by anonymous FTP upload around July 1999, and widely distributed on Usenet. It is a five round unbalanced Feistel cipher operating on a 256 bit block with a 160 bit key. The source code shows that the algorithm operates on blocks of 32 bytes (or 256 bits). That's four times larger than DES or 3DES (8 bytes) and twice as big as Twofish or AES (16 bytes).It also shows that the key size can vary from 160 to 2048 bits. A comment suggests that it is of Iraqi origin. However, like the S-1 block cipher, it is generally regarded as a hoax, although of lesser quality than S-1. Although the comment suggests that it is Iraqi in origin, all comments, variable and function names and printed strings are in English rather than Arabic; the code is fairly inefficient (including some pointless operations), and the cipher's security may be flawed (no proof). Because it has a constant key schedule the cipher is vulnerable to a slide attack. However, it may take 264 chosen texts to create a single slid pair, which would make the attack unfeasible. It also has many fixed points, although that is not necessarily a problem, except possibly for hashing modes. No public attack is currently available. As with S-1, it was David Wagner who first spotted the security flaws. (en)
  • L'Iraqi block cipher è un algoritmo crittografico il cui codice sorgente in C fu pubblicato anonimamente su un server FTP nel 1999. Nonostante il nome e i commenti inseriti nel codice, il cifrario è da ritenersi una burla sia per la qualità scadente del sorgente sia perché non sembra affatto provenire dall'Iraq: né un commento, né una variabile, né un output dell'algoritmo è scritto in arabo, bensì è tutto riportato in inglese. (it)
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  • L'Iraqi block cipher è un algoritmo crittografico il cui codice sorgente in C fu pubblicato anonimamente su un server FTP nel 1999. Nonostante il nome e i commenti inseriti nel codice, il cifrario è da ritenersi una burla sia per la qualità scadente del sorgente sia perché non sembra affatto provenire dall'Iraq: né un commento, né una variabile, né un output dell'algoritmo è scritto in arabo, bensì è tutto riportato in inglese. (it)
  • In cryptography, the Iraqi block cipher was a block cipher published in C source code form by anonymous FTP upload around July 1999, and widely distributed on Usenet. It is a five round unbalanced Feistel cipher operating on a 256 bit block with a 160 bit key. The source code shows that the algorithm operates on blocks of 32 bytes (or 256 bits). That's four times larger than DES or 3DES (8 bytes) and twice as big as Twofish or AES (16 bytes).It also shows that the key size can vary from 160 to 2048 bits. (en)
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