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The eStream project (2004–2008) was a research project of European cryptographers to identify a portfolio of interesting new stream ciphers. Representative for all ciphers from these project we describe three in detail. Two unbroken finalists: one optimised for hardware an one optimised for software implementation. The third example is an interesting, but unfortunately unsuccessful attempt to revive asynchronous stream ciphers. All three examples show state of the art stream cipher design.
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Klein, A. (2013). The eStream Project. In: Stream Ciphers. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5079-4_10
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