Re: [Cfrg] FW: Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, Robustness

Interesting.

I didn't see in the link, who's organizing the competition, who's evaluating the submissions, and who announces the winner.

It's not NIST or some equivalent government body, right?

Yoav

On Jan 15, 2013, at 5:36 PM, "David McGrew (mcgrew)" <mcgrew@cisco.com>
 wrote:

> Following up on the DIACs workshop, a new competition for Authenticated
> Encryption algorithms.
> 
> There are some nice benefits to this competition: it is inclusive (of both
> new algorithm designs and new mode designs) and it focuses attention on
> the important real-world issue of AE.   I am hoping to see developments
> that both perform well and improve robustness (e.g. against misuse).
> 
> I also hope to see a healthy discussion about requirements; people with
> use cases should provide them as input.
> 
> David
> 
> On 1/15/13 9:52 AM, "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> http://competitions.cr.yp.to/ today announces a new competition for
>> authenticated ciphers. Submissions will be due one year from now. NIST
>> has generously provided relevant funding. If you're interested in the
>> competition, please send email to
>> 
>>  crypto-competitions+subscribe@googlegroups.com
>> 
>> to join the discussion list.
>> 
>> ---D. J. Bernstein
>>  Research Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
>>  Hoogleraar, Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
>> 
> 
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