ZK-Crypt
Encyclopedia
In cryptography
, ZK-Crypt is a stream cipher
developed by Carmi Gressel, Ran Granot, and Gabi Vago and has been patent
ed. It has been submitted to the eSTREAM
Project of the eCRYPT
network, but has been dropped in Phase II due to the lack of documentation and limited independent security analysis.
Cryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...
, ZK-Crypt is a stream cipher
Stream cipher
In cryptography, a stream cipher is a symmetric key cipher where plaintext digits are combined with a pseudorandom cipher digit stream . In a stream cipher the plaintext digits are encrypted one at a time, and the transformation of successive digits varies during the encryption...
developed by Carmi Gressel, Ran Granot, and Gabi Vago and has been patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
ed. It has been submitted to the eSTREAM
ESTREAM
eSTREAM is a project to "identify new stream ciphers suitable for widespread adoption", organised by the EU ECRYPT network. It was set up as a result of the failure of all six stream ciphers submitted to the NESSIE project. The call for primitives was first issued in November 2004. The project was...
Project of the eCRYPT
ECRYPT
ECRYPT is a 4-year European research initiative launched on 1 February 2004.The stated objective is to, "intensify the collaboration of European researchers in information security, and more in particular in cryptology and digital watermarking.ECRYPT list five core research areas, termed "virtual...
network, but has been dropped in Phase II due to the lack of documentation and limited independent security analysis.