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 application programming in ...

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:{{Cite web, title=CAESAR committee, url=https://competitions.cr.yp.to/caesar-committee.html * Steve Babbage (Vodafone Group, UK) * Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands); secretary, non-voting * Alex Biryukov (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) *

Anne Canteaut Anne Canteaut is a French researcher in cryptography, working at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Paris. She studies the design and cryptanalysis of symmetric-key algorithms and S-boxes. Educatio ...

(Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France) * Carlos Cid (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) *

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, whi ...

(STMicroelectronics, Belgium) * Orr Dunkelman (University of Haifa, Israel) * Henri Gilbert (ANSSI, France) * Tetsu Iwata (Nagoya University, Japan) *

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 generalisi ...

(Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany) * Willi Meier (FHNW, Switzerland) *

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 R ...

(COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium) *

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 cipher ...

(KU Leuven, Belgium) *

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 coordina ...

(Impinj, USA) *

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) *

Serge Vaudenay Serge Vaudenay (born 5 April 1968) is a French cryptographer and professor, director of the Communications Systems Section at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Serge Vaudenay entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris as a '' ...

(EPFL, Switzerland) * Hongjun Wu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

References

External links

Homepage for the project
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