NAME

Crypt::Camellia - Perl Camellia encryption module

SYNOPSIS

  use Crypt::Camellia;
  my $cipher     = Crypt::Camellia->new($key); 
  my $ciphertext = $cipher->encrypt($plaintext);
  my $plaintext  = $cipher->decrypt($ciphertext);

  # more likely
  use Crypt::CBC;
  $cipher = Crypt::CBC->new( -key    => 'my secret key',
                             -cipher => 'Camellia'
                            );

DESCRIPTION

This module implements Camelia 128-bit Block Cipher for perl. For Camellia. Check https://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/eng/camellia/index_s.html. Here is an exerpt of that page.

Camellia is a symmetric key block cipher developed jointly in 2000 by world top class encryption researchers at NTT and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Technologically speaking, Camellia naturally has not only a high level of security, but also excellent efficiency and practical characteristics. It can be implemented at high performance by software on various platforms. In regard to hardware implementation, compact and low-power consumption type implementation as well as high-speed implementation is possible.

Based on these technological advantages, Camellia has been internationally recognized, for example the selection project on the European recommendation of strong cryptographic primitives, NESSIE, evaluated Camellia to have "many similarities to the AES, so much of the analysis for the AES is also applicable to Camellia." Currently, Camellia is the only cipher internationally recognized which has the same level of security and performance as AES, and is selected for many international standard/recommended ciphers. In particular, as Japanese domestic ciphers, this is the first case to be approved as IETF standard ciphers (Proposed Standard RFC) .

Crypt::Camellia has the following methods:

 blocksize()
 keysize()
 encrypt()
 decrypt()

Like many Crypt:: modules like Crypt::Blowfish and Crypt::DES, this module works as a backend of Crypt::CBC.

FUNCTIONS

blocksize

Returns the size (in bytes) of the block cipher. Currently this is a fixed value of 16.

new

  my $cipher = Crypt::Camellia-E<gt>new($key);

This creates a new Crypt::Camellia BlockCipher object, using $key, where $key is a key of keysize() bytes (minimum of eight bytes).

encrypt

  my $ciphertext = $cipher-E<gt>encrypt($plaintext);

This function encrypts $plaintext and returns the $ciphertext where $plaintext and $ciphertext must be of blocksize() bytes. (hint: Camellia is an 16 byte block cipher)

decrypt

  my $plaintext = $cipher-E<gt>decrypt($ciphertext);

This function decrypts $ciphertext and returns the $plaintext where $plaintext and $ciphertext must be of blocksize() bytes. (hint: see previous hint)

EXAMPLE

  my $key = pack("H16", "0123456789ABCDEF");  # min. 8 bytes
  my $cipher = Crypt::Camellia->new($key);
  my $ciphertext = $cipher->encrypt("plaintex");# SEE NOTES 
  print unpack("H16", $ciphertext), "\n";

NOTES

For practical uses use this module via Crypt::CBC rather than directly.

SEE ALSO

Crypt::CBC, Crypt::Rijndael, Crypt::DES, Crypt::IDEA

AUTHOR

Dan Kogai, <dankogai@dan.co.jp>

Current maintainer is Hiroyuki OYAMA <oyama@module.jp>.

And

NTT http://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/camellia/index.html

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Dan Kogai

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

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  NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) . All rights reserved.

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