D.STVL.9 - Ongoing Research Areas in Symmetric Cryptography

Anne Canteaut (1) , Daniel Augot (1) , Carlos Cid (2) , H. Englund (3) , Henri Gilbert (4) , Martin Hell (3) , Thomas Johansson (3) , Matthew Parker (5) , Thomas Pornin (6) , Bart Preneel (7) , Matt Robshaw (4) , Christian Rechberger (8)

1 SECRET - Security, Cryptology and Transmissions
2 RHUL - Royal Holloway [University of London]
3 Skane University Hospital [Lund]
4 FT R&D - France Télécom Recherche & Développement
5 UiB - University of Bergen
6 Cryptolog - Cryptolog International
7 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
8 IAIK - Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications [Graz]

This report gives a brief summary of some of the research trends in symmetric cryptography at the time of writing (2008). The following aspects of symmetric cryptography are investigated in this report: • the status of work with regards to different types of symmetric algorithms, including block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions and MAC algorithms (Section 1); • the algebraic attacks on symmetric primitives (Section 2); • the design criteria for symmetric ciphers (Section 3); • the provable properties of symmetric primitives (Section 4); • the major industrial needs in the area of symmetric cryptography (Section 5).

Domaines: Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]

Anne Canteaut, Daniel Augot, Carlos Cid, H. Englund, Henri Gilbert, et al.. D.STVL.9 - Ongoing Research Areas in Symmetric Cryptography. 2008. ⟨hal-00328622⟩