In cryptography, SOBER's a family of stream ciphers initially designed by Greg Rose of QUALCOMM Australia starting in 1997. The name's a contrived acronym for Seventeen Octet Byte Enabled Register. Initially the cipher was intended as a replacement for broken ciphers in cellular telephony. The ciphers evolved, and other developers (primarily Phillip Hawkes) joined the project. SOBER was the first cipher, with a 17-byte Linear Feedback Shift Register, a form of decimation called stuttering, and… (More on Sober)