Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2014/792

General Overview of the First-Round CAESAR Candidates for Authenticated Encryption

{Farzaneh Abed, Christian Forler, Stefan Lucks

Abstract: The ongoing CAESAR competition aims at finding authenticated encryption schemes that offer advantages over AES-GCM and are suitable for widespread adoption. At the moment, 48 remaining first-round submissions are going through an intensive review, analysis and comparison process. While the cryptographic community benefits greatly from the manifold different submission designs, their pure number implies a challenging amount of study. As part of a remedy, this paper provides an easy-to-grasp overview over functional aspects, security parameters, and robustness offerings of the CAESAR candidates, clustered by their underlying designs (block-cipher-, stream-cipher-, permutation-/sponge-, compression-function-based, dedicated).

Category / Keywords: second round candidates

Date: received 4 Oct 2014, last revised 25 Aug 2015

Contact author: farzaneh abed at uni-weimar de

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Note: This version includes the second round candidates plus some third-party cryptanalysis for candidates.

Version: 20150825:084545 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2014/792

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