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A block cipher is a family of permutations where the key selects a particular permutation from that family. With a tweakable bockcipher both key and tweak are used to select a permuation. So tweak and key are pretty similar. The main difference are the security and performance requirements for a tweak: Changing a key can be expensive, changing a tweak ...

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Of those you listed, AES is the best to study. Not only is it the standard that is used everywhere, it has a huge literature of people explaining it and analyzing it, far larger than any of the others on your list. Also, compared to the others on your list it is easier to understand why AES strongly resists certain major classes of attack (like linear and ...

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First, it is important to learn the basics behind all symmetric ciphers. You can get this from Handbook of Applied Cryptography, see Chapter 7, especially 7.1, 7.2, 7.3. If you understand those three sections, you will be off on the right foot. From there, I would suggest just diving right into AES. It isn't that terribly difficult (yes, there are easier ...

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If we are talking about symmetric encryption, the PAGES block cipher based on Speck support key size 1024 bits and PAGES+/PAGES— variants support key sizes up to 2048 bits. However, I have not seen any independent cryptanalysis of these, so I can't recommend them. If we talk about the ciphers which have some cryptanalysis available, the Kalyna block cipher ...

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You say I have never studied a cipher before In that case I would recommend the following: Sign up for the Stanford online class on Cryptography on Coursera. This is a great introduction to Cryptography and this will conver block ciphers. Get a library card with your local public library and ask them to get some textbooks on Cryptography for you. ...

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ISAAC can have up to $2^{2^{13}}$ bit keys and has no known attacks better than at least $4.67⋅10^{1240} > 2^{4121}$ complexitiy (assuming that the initial state is chosen uniformly at random). It is a stream cipher, but this can still be used for AEAD. While old and with only minimal cryptanalysis, the best known attack is still much harder than the ...

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