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Sfinks (Polish for "Sphynx") was also the initial name of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award

In cryptography, SFINKS is a stream cypher algorithm developed by An Braeken, Joseph Lano, Nele Mentens, Bart Preneel, and Ingrid Verbauwhede. It includes a message authentication code. It has been submitted to the eSTREAM Project of the eCRYPT network.^[1]^[2] In 2005, Nicolas T. Courtois noted that, while the cipher is elegant and secure against some simple algebraic attacks, it is vulnerable to more elaborate known attacks.^[3]

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^ "eSTREAM - The ECRYPT Stream Cipher Project". www.ecrypt.eu.org. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
^ Braeken, A., Lano, J., Mentens, N., Preneel, B., & Verbauwhede, I. (2005, April). SFINKS: A synchronous stream cipher for restricted hardware environments. In SKEW-Symmetric Key Encryption Workshop (Vol. 55, p. 72).
^ Courtois, Nicolas T. (2006). Won, Dong Ho; Kim, Seungjoo (eds.). "Cryptanalysis of Sfinks". Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2005. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer: 261–269. doi:10.1007/11734727_22. ISBN 978-3-540-33355-5.

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