Report on the AES Candidates
Olivier Baudron, Henri Gilbert, Louis Granboulan, Helena Handschuh, Antoine Joux, Phong Q. Nguyễn, Fabrice Noilhan, David Pointcheval, Thomas Pornin, Guillaume Poupard, Jacques Stern, Serge Vaudenay · 1999
This document reports the activities of the AES working group organized at the Ecole Normale Superieure. Several candidates are evaluated. In particular we outline some weaknesses in the designs of some candidates. We mainly discuss selection criteria between the candidates, and make case-by-case comments. We finally recommend the selection of Mars, RC6, Serpent, ... and DFC. As the report is being finalized, we also added some new preliminary cryptanalysis on RC6 and Crypton in the Appendix which are not considered in the main body of the report.