A key derivation function is used to generate one or more cryptographic keys from a private (secret) input value. This paper proposes a new method for constructing a generic stream cipher based key derivation function. We show that our proposed key derivation function based on stream ciphers is secure if the underlying stream cipher is secure. We simulate instances of this stream cipher based key derivation function using three eStream finalist: Trivium, Sosemanuk and Rabbit. The simulation results show these stream cipher based key derivation functions offer efficiency advantages over the more commonly used key derivation functions based on block ciphers and hash functions.
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Chuah, C. W., Dawson, E., & Simpson, L. (2013). Key derivation function: The SCKDF scheme. In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (Vol. 405, pp. 125–138). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39218-4_10
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