eSTREAM - The ECRYPT Stream Cipher Project

Salsa20 (Phase 2)

This is the archived eSTREAM Phase 2 page of Salsa20. For the latest information on Salsa20, please go to the eSTREAM Phase 3 page on Salsa20 here

Submitters : Daniel J. Bernstein
Type of algorithm : Synchronous Stream Cipher
Proposed Environment : Profile 1 (SW) and 2 (HW)
Algorithm description :
- Article : zip
- Submitted C code: zip
- API-compliant C code: link
Changes compared to phase 1 : Salsa20 is left unchanged compared to phase 1. The design can still be referred to simply as Salsa20. The old phase 1 page can be found here.