FISH (cipher)

For the British code-word for World War II German stream cipher teleprinter secure communications devices, see Fish (cryptography).

The FISH (FIbonacci SHrinking) stream cipher is a fast software based stream cipher using Lagged Fibonacci generators, plus a concept from the shrinking generator cipher. It was published by Siemens in 1993. FISH is quite fast in software and has a huge key length. However, in the same paper where he proposed Pike, Ross Anderson showed that FISH can be broken with just a few thousand bits of known plaintext.

References

• Blöcher, Uwe; Dichtl, Markus (1994), "Fish: A fast software stream cipher", Fast Software Encryption, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 809, Springer-Verlag, pp. 41–44, doi:10.1007/3-540-58108-1_4, ISBN 978-3-540-58108-6.
• Anderson, Ross J. (1995), "On Fibonacci keystream generators", Fast Software Encryption, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1008, Springer-Verlag, pp. 346–352, doi:10.1007/3-540-60590-8_26, ISBN 978-3-540-60590-4.