The NESSIE Project: Towards New Cryptographic Algorithms
Bart Preneel · 2002
In spite of more than 25 years of open research on cryptographic algorithms, many applications still use insecure cryptography. This paper attempts to explain this problem and tries to motivate why continuous research in this area is required. It also discusses the status of the NESSIE project. NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signature, Integrity and Encryption) is a 40-month research project (2000-2003) which intends to put forward a new generation of strong cryptographic algorithms, which have been obtained after an open call and an open evaluation process. 1