Iraqi block cipher
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In cryptography, the Iraqi block cipher was a block cipher published in C source code from 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.
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 is flawed.
Because it has a constant key schedule the cipher is vulnerable to a slide attack. It also has a large number of fixed points. Like S-1, it was David Wagner who first spotted the security flaws.
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