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BaseKing

192-bit block cipher with 192-bit key size using 11 rounds plus final transformation.

Properties

Property	Value
Category	Block Ciphers
Sub-category	Block Cipher
Security status	🧪 Experimental
Complexity	Advanced
Inventor	Joan Daemen
Year	1994
Origin	🇧🇪 Belgium
Source	algorithms/block/baseking.js

Parameters

Parameter	Supported values
Key sizes	24 bytes (192 bits)
Block sizes	24 bytes (192 bits)

Security

Status: 🧪 Experimental

No vulnerabilities are recorded for this implementation.

Documentation

• Tim van Dijk’s Bachelor Thesis
• Joan Daemen’s Doctoral Dissertation — Cipher and hash function design strategies based on linear and differential cryptanalysis

References

• Joan Daemen Research Page
• Tim van Dijk’s Python Reference Implementation — BaseKing.py and DoubleKing.py from Bachelor thesis

Test vectors

3 vectors ship with this algorithm and run in the test suite. Byte values are hexadecimal.

Vector 1 — All zeros test vector

Source: Tim van Dijk’s Python reference implementation

Field	Value
key	000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
input	000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
expected	38014f256f53468810426df18e7304b8a3084a5da3d01a94

Vector 2 — All ones test vector

Source: Tim van Dijk’s Python reference implementation

Field	Value
key	ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
input	ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
expected	44509d632a2e7ecca77202ab8caaf43f9c77d1205a8b6cd1

Vector 3 — Sequential pattern test vector

Source: Tim van Dijk’s Python reference implementation

Field	Value
key	0102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718
input	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f1011121314151617
expected	a56cc31ee5510c41ed66d01b5d0622444625c974147a7328

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