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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anubis \A*nu"bis\, n. [L.] (Myth.) An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits to judgment, represented by a human figure with the head of a jackal, dog or fox.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jackal-headed god of Egyptian religion, from Greek Anoubis, from Egyptian Anpu.
Wikipedia
Anubis ( or ; ) is the Greek name of a god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head. Archeologists identified the sacred animal of Anubis as an Egyptian canid, that at the time was called the golden jackal, but recent genetic testing has caused the Egyptian animals to be reclassified as the African golden wolf.
Like many ancient Egyptian deities, Anubis assumed different roles in various contexts. Depicted as a protector of graves as early as the First Dynasty (c. 3100 – c. 2890 BC), Anubis was also an embalmer. By the Middle Kingdom (c. 2055 – 1650 BC) he was replaced by Osiris in his role as lord of the underworld. One of his prominent roles was as a god who ushered souls into the afterlife. He attended the weighing scale during the "Weighing of the Heart," in which it was determined whether a soul would be allowed to enter the realm of the dead. Despite being one of the most ancient and "one of the most frequently depicted and mentioned gods" in the Egyptian pantheon, Anubis played almost no role in Egyptian myths.
Anubis was depicted in black, a color that symbolized both rebirth and the discoloration of the corpse after embalming. Anubis is associated with Wepwawet (also called Upuaut), another Egyptian god portrayed with a dog's head or in canine form, but with grey or white fur. Historians assume that the two figures were eventually combined. Anubis' female counterpart is Anput. His daughter is the serpent goddess Kebechet.
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Anubis is a block cipher designed by Vincent Rijmen and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto as an entrant in the NESSIE project, a former research program initiated by the European Commission in 2000 for the identification of new cryptographic algorithms. Although the cipher has not been included in the final NESSIE portfolio, its design is considered very strong, and no attacks have been found by 2004 after the project had been concluded. The cipher is not patented and has been released by the designers for free public use.
Anubis operates on data blocks of 128 bits, accepting keys of length 32N bits (N = 4, ..., 10). It is designed as a substitution-permutation network, which bears large similarity to Rijndael. Like KHAZAD, designed by the same authors and also submitted to NESSIE, it uses involutions for the various operations. An involution is an operation whose inverse is the same as the forward operation. In other words, when an involution is run twice, it is the same as performing no operation. This allows low-cost hardware and compact software implementations to use the same operations for both encryption and decryption. Both the S-box and the mix columns operations are involutions. Although many involutional components can make a cipher more susceptible to distinguishing attacks exploiting the cycle structure of permutations within the cipher, no attack strategy for the Anubis cipher has been presented.
There are two versions of the Anubis cipher; the original implementation uses a pseudo-random S-box. Subsequently, the S-box was modified to be more efficient to implement in hardware; the newer version of Anubis is called the "tweaked" version.
The authors claim the algorithm to be secure against a number of attacks, including four-round differential and linear analysis, as well as related-key, interpolation, boomerang, truncated differential, impossible differential, and saturation attacks. Nonetheless, because of the cipher's similarity with Rijndael it was not considered to offer any convincing advantages and thus was not included in the second evaluation phase of the NESSIE project.
Anubis is named after the Egyptian god of entombing and embalming, which the designers interpreted to include encryption. They claim that violators of the cipher will be cursed.
Anubis is an ancient Egyptian god.
Anubis may also refer to:
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Anubis is a genus of longhorn beetles belonging to the family Cerambycidae.
Usage examples of "anubis".
Every day that he had the chance, Anubis left the palace and traveled out to the land of the mortals, always careful to have that day one of his attendant jackals pheal at the break of dawn.
According to the mythology, the god of death, Anubis, had a daughter who represented the purifying waters in the afterlife.
All the while Anubis ate and listened, slowly noticing under all the cheerful talk the actual loneliness of the man.
Yet when Thoth came into the light, his hand resting upon his staff, the expression he gave Anubis was slightly puzzled, not angry.
Right then and there Hathor decided it was about time that Anubis learn his next lesson.
She was forced to bide her time for a while, as it was several days before Anubis went out again.
Taking on her own form, but invisible to both of them, she reached over her shoulder to select an arrow, whipping it forward and fitting it to her bow, aiming it at Anubis, and firing, all in less than a second.
It was Khebit, though, who did most of the talking, as Anubis could say very little of where he came from.
But please, stop your worrying for Anubis, and just let nature take its course.
Finally, somewhat angry that he had to do so, Anubis turned and slowly walked away, leaving her alone in the clearing.
It was about a month or two after they had first met that the early evening found Anubis and Khebit watching the sunset again.
She was just reaching up to knock on his door when it flew open, and she and Anubis found themselves staring at each other.
For a long time Anubis did nothing else but lie there, weeping and agonizing over what could have possibly gone wrong.
Every time she had seen him he had stared at Anubis in that same strange way.
Nephthys left Kebehut in the care of Hathor in order to attend, to see how Anubis would fare.