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Project

New Blockcipher Structures

The Wide-trail design strategy was developed in the 1990’s as a structured and scientific approach to design ciphers that resisted the most relevant cryptanalysis methods at that time. The strategy led to the blockcipher Rijndael, which was selected in 2000 to become the AES.The main objective of this project is to develop a new design theory for symmetric-key cryptographic primitives, starting from the wide-trail design strategy, incorporating the new insights gained in the twenty years since the first formulation of this strategy, and taking into account new design requirements that have been identified since: resistance to side-channel attacks, lightweight implementations (low power, low energy, low area in hardware, small in software), low latency, resistance against new attacks, quantum-secure, … We will also develop and implement tools to assist the security analysis of recently proposed ciphers.
Date:1 Oct 2018 →  Today
Keywords:cryptology, encryption, block ciphers, information security, Rijndael/AES
Disciplines:Modelling, Multimedia processing, Applied mathematics in specific fields, Computer architecture and networks, Distributed computing, Information sciences, Information systems, Programming languages, Scientific computing, Theoretical computer science, Visual computing, Other information and computing sciences, Algebra, Communications, Communications technology