Enhancement of RC6 block cipher algorithm and comparison with RC5 & RC6
Harsh Kumar Verma, Ravindra Kumar Singh · 2013
This paper presents an enhanced version of RC6 Block Cipher Algorithm (RC6e - RC6 enhanced version), which is a symmetric encryption algorithm [1] designed for 256-bit plain text block. RC6 uses four (w-bit) registers for storing plain text and for data-dependent rotations [2, 3], but this enhanced version (RC6e) uses eight (w-bit) register that helps to increase the performance as well as improve security. Its salient feature includes two-variable algebraic expression modulo 2wand 2 Box-Type operations, Box-Type I & Box-Type II. Each Box-Type operation uses two (w-bit) registers. Box-Type I works much like two registers (A & B or C & D) operation in RC6 but in Box-Type II bitwise exclusive-or is swapped by integer addition modulo 2wused in Box-Type I and vice-versa, it improves Diffusion in each round. This enhanced version needs 2r+4 additive round-keys and uses every round-key twice for encrypting the file. This enhanced version performs better with respect to RC5 [4, 5] and RC6 [2, 3] when file size is larger.