Hawkynt

Crypton

Korean AES candidate with 128-bit blocks and 128/192/256-bit keys.

Properties

Property Value
Category Block Ciphers
Sub-category Block Cipher
Security status 🎓 Educational Only
Complexity Intermediate
Inventor Chae Hoon Lim
Year 1998
Origin 🇰🇷 South Korea
Source algorithms/block/crypton.js

Parameters

Parameter Supported values
Key sizes 16 bytes (128 bits) to 32 bytes (256 bits) in steps of 8 bytes
Block sizes 16 bytes (128 bits)

Security

Status: 🎓 Educational Only

No vulnerabilities are recorded for this implementation.

Documentation

References

Test vectors

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

Vector 1 — DarkCrypt CRYPTON-256 vector 1/zero

Field Value
key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
input 00000000000000000000000000000000
expected ec62e539bb6bbc811a60c06faccb7ec8

Vector 2 — DarkCrypt CRYPTON-256 vector 2/incr

Field Value
key 000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f
input 000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
expected f492525dec52b41aa180a2477d8c3e7b

Vector 3 — DarkCrypt CRYPTON-256 vector 3/incr2

Field Value
key 0102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f20
input 101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f
expected 1ed972824b3cc0fce3f2ebc503db4424

Vector 4 — NIST IR 6391 sample - 128-bit key

Field Value
key 000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
input 00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff
expected b2e3c68c3183e69504d4b90377d126e6

Vector 5 — NIST IR 6391 sample - 192-bit key

Field Value
key 000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f1011121314151617
input 00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff
expected ba1744e85800f7a174326da87eda7e45

Vector 6 — NIST IR 6391 sample - 256-bit key

Field Value
key 000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f
input 00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff
expected 17d5fac539eea17b36371838792ea84d

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