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NORX

Educational implementation of NORX authenticated encryption algorithm. CAESAR competition candidate designed for high performance on 64-bit platforms with AEAD capabilities.

Properties

Property	Value
Category	Stream Ciphers
Sub-category	Stream Cipher
Security status	🎓 Educational Only
Complexity	Advanced
Inventor	Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Philipp Jovanovic, Samuel Neves
Year	2014
Origin	Not specified
Source	algorithms/stream/norx.js

Parameters

Parameter	Supported values
Key sizes	32 bytes (256 bits)
Block sizes	1 byte (8 bits) to 65536 bytes (524288 bits)

Security

Status: 🎓 Educational Only

Known vulnerabilities

Issue	Description	Mitigation
Educational Implementation	This is a simplified educational implementation	Use official reference implementation for any serious applications

Documentation

• NORX Reference Implementation
• CAESAR Competition
• NORX Specification Paper

References

• Official GitHub Repository
• NORX64-4-4 Reference
• Test Vectors

Test vectors

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

Vector 1 — NORX Educational Test Vector 1 (Empty)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
input	(empty)
expected	(empty)

Vector 2 — NORX Educational Test Vector 2 (Single Byte)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
input	00
expected	ed

Vector 3 — NORX Educational Test Vector 3 (Two Bytes)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
input	0001
expected	ed8d

Vector 4 — NORX Educational Test Vector 4 (Block)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
input	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
expected	ed8d2b96f14ee5531c78fe507f8ac3fe

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