Life Vest

Life vest: sink or swim.

How good is your life vest in the real world?

Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) can be thought of as a life vest till the lifeboat (implantable cardioverter defibrillator ICD) arrives [1]. It is often used as a bridge to the implantation of an ICD when the indication for the latter is not yet well established in the subject. Sometimes it may be used as definitive therapy in those with limited life expectancy due to other serious co...

Overtaking VEST

VEST is a set of four stream cipher families submitted by S. O’Neil, B. Gittins and H. Landman to the eSTREAM call for stream cipher proposals of the European project ECRYPT. The state of any family member is made of three components: a counter, a counter diffusor and a core accumulator. We show that collisions can be found in the counter during the IV Setup. Moreover they can be combined with ...

Scaling VEST in Hardware

VEST is an exceptionally efficient cipher family that belongs to the most advanced type of design that offers multi-functionality in one highly efficient module. VEST is readily scaled in hardware. The problem of efficient generation of a secure message digest for scaled ciphers is overcome when VEST is combined with XOR-MAC. XOR-MAC technologies are proven secure but suffer performance restric...

VEST Enhanced Smart Cards

VEST is a modern cipher that can be readily deployed to offer increased efficiency and/or improved functionality in smartcards. VEST can also be deployed to assist prevent real world problems such as identity theft and the emulation and cloning of cards. VEST efficiently implements the essential symmetric cryptographic functions in one low-area, highperformance multi-function module. VEST-4 red...