Secure Applications of Low-Entropy Keys
1997 Information Security Workshop (ISW'97), September 1997, pp. 121-134.
ABSTRACT: We introduce the notion of key stretching, a mechanism to convert short s-bit keys into longer keys, such that the complexity required to brute-force search a (s+t)-bit keyspace is the same as the time required to brute-force search a s-bit key stretched by t bits.
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Categories: Cipher Design