The Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness (CAESAR) is a competition organized by a group of international cryptologic researchers to encourage the design of
authenticated encryption
Authenticated Encryption (AE) and Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) are forms of encryption which simultaneously assure the confidentiality and authenticity of data.
Programming interface
A typical programming interface for ...
schemes. The competition was announced at the Early Symmetric Crypto workshop in January 2013 and the final portfolio in February 2019.
Use Cases
The final CAESAR portfolio is organized into three use cases:
* 1: Lightweight applications (resource constrained environments)
* 2: High-performance applications
* 3: Defense in depth
Final Portfolio
The final portfolio announced by the CAESAR committee is:
CAESAR committee
The committee in charge of the CAESAR Competition consisted of:
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* Steve Babbage (Vodafone Group, UK)
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Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands); secretary, non-voting
* Alex Biryukov (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
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Anne Canteaut (Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France)
* Carlos Cid (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
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Joan Daemen
Joan Daemen (; born 1965) is a Belgian cryptographer who co-designed with Vincent Rijmen the Rijndael cipher, which was selected as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in 2001. More recently, he co-designed the Keccak cryptographic hash, wh ...
(STMicroelectronics, Belgium)
* Orr Dunkelman (University of Haifa, Israel)
* Henri Gilbert (ANSSI, France)
* Tetsu Iwata (Nagoya University, Japan)
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Stefan Lucks
Stefan Lucks is a researcher in the fields of communications security and cryptography. Lucks is known for his attack on Triple DES, and for extending Lars Knudsen's Square attack to Twofish, a cipher outside the Square family, thus generalis ...
(Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)
* Willi Meier (FHNW, Switzerland)
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Bart Preneel
Bart Preneel (born 15 October 1963 in Leuven, Belgium) is a Flemish cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group.
He was the president of the International Association for Cryptologic ...
(COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium)
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Vincent Rijmen
Vincent Rijmen (; born 16 October 1970) is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the two designers of the Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard. Rijmen is also the co-designer of the WHIRLPOOL cryptographic hash function, and the block cip ...
(KU Leuven, Belgium)
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Matt Robshaw Matthew John Barton "Matt" Robshaw is a cryptographer. Formerly a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London and a member of the cryptography research group at France Telecom's Orange Labs, he is now a Technical Fellow at Impinj. He coordinate ...
(Impinj, USA)
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Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School, and later earned a BA in computer science from UC Berkeley and completed his PhD in cryptography at MIT, in ...
(University of California at Davis, USA)
* Greg Rose (kitchen4140, USA)
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Serge Vaudenay (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Hongjun Wu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
References
External links
Homepage for the project
Symmetric-key cryptography
Cryptography contests
Research projects