[openssl-dev] Speck Cipher Integration with OpenSSL

[Dmitry Belyavsky]

Dear William,

Does SPECK implementation need to be a part of the OpenSSL bundle itself?
It can be added as engine, similar to Russian GOST support, with minimal
patches providing OIDs/NIDs if necessary.

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:52 PM, William Bathurst <wbathurs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> We have open sourced our work in regards to integrating the Speck Cipher
> with OpenSSL. Basic information about this cipher can be found here.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher) <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_%28cipher%29>
>
> SPECK is a lightweight block ciphers each of which comes in a variety of
> widths and key sizes and is targeted towards resource constrained devices
> and environments. This implementation is currently implemented using the
> 128 and 256 block sizes.
>
> We are currently modifying the source from Apache to OpenSSL open source
> licensing for the Speck/OpenSSL integration. Related repositories such as
> the cipher itself will remain under the Apache license. We would love input
> on the following items:
>
> 1) Community interest in such a lightweight cipher.
> 2) Committers willing to help on the code for improvements.
> 3) Information on how to make this available as a patch.
>
> We have currently integrated Speck with OpenSSL 1.1. We also have an Speck
> Client software available for people who wish to test this software. Future
> ports will be to mbedTLS.
>
> We have listed making it available as an issue:
>
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues
>
> OpenSSL/Speck Integration open source repositories:
>
> https://github.com/m2mi/openssl_speck
> https://github.com/m2mi/open_speck
>
> Feel free to contact to to discuss the cipher and uses.
>
> With Regards,
> Bill
>
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SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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