PC1 cipher#Successors

{{About|the PC1 cipher used in the Kindle|the permuted choice used in the DES cipher|DES supplementary material#Permuted choice 1 (PC-1)}}

The PC1 cipher, also called the Kindle cipher or Pukall cipher 1, is a block cipher introduced in 1991. It is most prominently used by Amazon, Inc., for their Kindle e-book reader's DRM system.

Gregor Leander.

[http://summerschool-croatia14.cs.ru.nl/slides/Lightweight%20Block%20Cipher%20Design.pdf "Lightweight Block Cipher Design].

2014.

History

The PC1 cipher was designed by Alexander Pukall in 1991.

Alex Biryukov, Gaëtan Leurent, Arnab Roy.

'Cryptanalysis of the “Kindle” Cipher'.

[https://www.di.ens.fr/~leurent/files/Kindle_SAC12_slides.pdf]

[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-35999-6_7]

[http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/17072]

2012.

Lars R. Knudsen, Huapeng Wu.

[https://books.google.com/books?id=IEa7BQAAQBAJ "Selected Areas in Cryptography"]

2012.

p. 86.

Successors

Caracachs Cipher formerly known as PC3 Cipher was released in 2000.{{cite web |url=http://alexpukall.github.io/pc3/caracachs.txt |website=Alexander Pukall Web Page |year=2000 |title=PC3 encryption cipher}} This algorithm was used by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group. {{cite web |url=https://www.usna.edu/CyberCenter/_files/documents/Operation-Blockbuster-Report.pdf|website=United States Naval Academy|year=2018 |title=Operation Blockbuster (page 28)}}

PC4 was released in 2015. It's a block cipher specifically designed for DMR radio communication systems. It uses 253 rounds and the key size can vary from 8 bits to 2112 bits. The block size is 49 bits, the exact size of an AMBE+ DMR voiceframe. {{cite web |url=http://alexpukall.github.io/pc4/pc4.txt |website=Alexander Pukall Web Page |year=2015 |title=PC4 DMR encryption cipher}}

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