Two Feistel rounds (one cycle) of XTEA |
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| General | |
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| Designers | Roger Needham, David Wheeler |
| First published | 1997 |
| Derived from | TEA |
| Successors | Corrected Block TEA |
| Cipher detail | |
| Key sizes | 128 bits |
| Block sizes | 64 bits |
| Structure | Feistel network |
| Rounds | variable; recommended 64 Feistel rounds (32 cycles) |
| Best public cryptanalysis | |
| A related-key differential attack can break 27 out of 64 rounds of XTEA, requiring 220.5 chosen plaintexts and a time complexity of 2115.15 (Ko et al., 2004). | |
In cryptography, XTEA (eXtended TEA) is a block cipher designed to correct weaknesses in TEA. The cipher's designers were David Wheeler and Roger Needham of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and the algorithm was presented in an unpublished technical report in 1997 (Needham and Wheeler, 1997). It is not subject to any patents.
Like TEA, XTEA is a 64-bit block Feistel network with a 128-bit key and a suggested 64 rounds. Several differences from TEA are apparent, including a somewhat more complex key-schedule and a rearrangement of the shifts, XORs, and additions.
Presented along with XTEA was a variable-width block cipher termed Block TEA, which uses the XTEA round function but applies it cyclically across an entire message for several iterations. Because it operates on the entire message, Block TEA has the property that it does not need a mode of operation. An attack on the full Block TEA was described in (Saarinen, 1998), which also details a weakness in Block TEA's successor, XXTEA.
As of 2004[update], the best attack reported on XTEA is a related-key differential attack on 27 out of 64 rounds of XTEA, requiring 220.5 chosen plaintexts and a time complexity of 2115.15 (Ko et al., 2004).
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This standard C source code, adapted from the reference code released into the public domain by David Wheeler and Roger Needham, encrypts and decrypts using XTEA:
#include <stdint.h> /* take 64 bits of data in v[0] and v[1] and 128 bits of key[0] - key[3] */ void encipher(unsigned int num_rounds, uint32_t v[2], uint32_t const key[4]) { unsigned int i; uint32_t v0=v[0], v1=v[1], sum=0, delta=0x9E3779B9; for (i=0; i < num_rounds; i++) { v0 += (((v1 << 4) ^ (v1 >> 5)) + v1) ^ (sum + key[sum & 3]); sum += delta; v1 += (((v0 << 4) ^ (v0 >> 5)) + v0) ^ (sum + key[(sum>>11) & 3]); } v[0]=v0; v[1]=v1; } void decipher(unsigned int num_rounds, uint32_t v[2], uint32_t const key[4]) { unsigned int i; uint32_t v0=v[0], v1=v[1], delta=0x9E3779B9, sum=delta*num_rounds; for (i=0; i < num_rounds; i++) { v1 -= (((v0 << 4) ^ (v0 >> 5)) + v0) ^ (sum + key[(sum>>11) & 3]); sum -= delta; v0 -= (((v1 << 4) ^ (v1 >> 5)) + v1) ^ (sum + key[sum & 3]); } v[0]=v0; v[1]=v1; }
The changes from the reference source code are minor:
unsigned long type rather than the 64-bit clean uint32_t.const types.v1 += (v0<<4 ^ v0>>5) + v0 ^ sum + k[sum>>11 & 3];The recommended value for the "num_rounds" parameter is 32, not 64, as each iteration of the loop does two Feistel-network rounds. To additionally improve speed, the loop can be unrolled by pre-computing the values of sum+key[].
