D.STVL.9 - Ongoing Research Areas in Symmetric Cryptography
Anne Canteaut, Daniel Augot, Carlos Cid, Håkan Englund, Henri Gilbert, Martin Hell, Thomas Johansson, Matthew Geoffrey Parker, Thomas Pornin, Bart Preneel, Matthew J. B. Robshaw, Christian Rechberger · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2008
This report gives a brief summary of some of the research trends in symmetric cryptography at the time of writing (2008). The following aspects of symmetric cryptography are investigated in this report: • the status of work with regards to different types of symmetric algorithms, including block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions and MAC algorithms (Section 1); • the algebraic attacks on symmetric primitives (Section 2); • the design criteria for symmetric ciphers (Section 3); • the provable properties of symmetric primitives (Section 4); • the major industrial needs in the area of symmetric cryptography (Section 5).