Stream password table

The most common traffic passwords are RC4. Others include A5/1, A5/2, chameleon, fish, helix, Isaac, mugi, Panama, phelix, Pike, seal, sober, sober-128 and wake.

 

 

 

 

Stream Cipher	Creation Date	Speed (Cycles per byte)	(BITs)			Attack
			Valid Key-length	Initialization Vector	Internal State	Best known	Computational Complexity
A5/1	1989	Voice (wphone)	54	114	64	Active kPa or KPA time-memory tradeoff	~ 2 seconds or 239.91
A5/2	1989	Voice (wphone)	54	114	64?	Active	4.6 milliseconds
Fish	1993	Quite fast (wsoft)	Huge	?	?	Known-plaintext attack	211
Grain	Pre-2004	Fast	80	64	160	Key-Derivation	243
HC-256	Pre-2004	4 (WP4)	256	256	65536	?	?
Isaac	1996	2.375 (W64-bit )- 4.6875 (W32-bit)	8-8288 Usually 40-256	N/	8288	(2006) first-round Weak-Internal-state-Derivation	4.67 × 101240 (2001)
Mugi	1998-2002	?	128	128	1216	N/A (2002)	~ 282
Panama	1998	2	256	128?	1216?	Hash collisions (2001)	282
Phelix	Pre-2004	Up to 8 (wx86)	256 + A 128-bit Nonce	128?	?	Differential (0, 2006)	237
Pike	1994	0.9 x fish (wsoft)	Huge	?	?	N/A (2004)	N/A (2004)
PY	Pre-2004	2.6	8-2048? Usually 40-256?	64	8320	Cryptanalytic theory (2006)	275
Rabbit	2003-feb	3.7 (WP3)-9.7 (warm7)	128	64	512	N/A (2006)	N/A (2006)
RC4	1987	Impressive	8-2048 Usually 40-256	8	2064	Shamir initial-bytes key-Derivation or kPa	213 or 233
Salsa20	Pre-2004	4.24 (WG4 )- 11.84 (WP4)	128 + a 64-bit Nonce	512	512 + 384 (Key + iv + index)	Differential (0, 2005)	N/A (2005)
Scream	2002	4-5 (wsoft)	128 + A 128-bit Nonce	32?	64-bit Round Function	?	?
Seal	1997	Very fast (W32-bit)	?	32?	?	?	?
Snow	Pre-2003	Very good (W32-bit)	128 or 256	32	?	?	?
Sober-128	2003	?	Up to 128	?	?	Message forge	2-6
Sosemanuk	Pre-2004	Very good (W32-bit)	128	128	?	?	?
Trivium	Pre-2004	4 (wx86)-8 (wlg)	80	80	288	Brute force attack (2006)	2135
Turing	2000-2003	5.5 (wx86)	?	160	?	?	?
Vest	2005	42 (wasic )- 64 (wfpga)	Variable Usually 80-256	Variable Usually 80-256	256-800	N/A (2006)	N/A (2006)
Wake	1993	Fast	?	?	8192	CPA & CCA	Vulnerable
Stream Cipher	Creation Date	Speed (Cycles per byte)	(BITs)			Attack
			Valid Key-length	Initialization Vector	Internal State	Best known	Computational Complexity