CAESAR Competition

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The Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness (CAESAR) is a competition organized by a group of international cryptologic researchers to encourage the design of authenticated encryption schemes.^[1] The competition was announced at the Early Symmetric Crypto workshop in January 2013 and the final portfolio in February 2019.

The final CAESAR portfolio is organized into three use cases:^[2]

• 1: Lightweight applications (resource constrained environments)
• 2: High-performance applications
• 3: Defense in depth

The final portfolio announced by the CAESAR committee is:^[2]

The committee in charge of the CAESAR Competition consisted of:^[3]

• Steve Babbage (Vodafone Group, UK)
• Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands); secretary, non-voting
• Alex Biryukov (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
• Anne Canteaut (Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France)
• Carlos Cid (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
• Joan Daemen (STMicroelectronics, Belgium)
• Orr Dunkelman (University of Haifa, Israel)
• Henri Gilbert (ANSSI, France)
• Tetsu Iwata (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Stefan Lucks (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)
• Willi Meier (FHNW, Switzerland)
• Bart Preneel (COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Vincent Rijmen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Matt Robshaw (Impinj, USA)
• Phillip Rogaway (University of California at Davis, USA)
• Greg Rose (kitchen4140, USA)
• Serge Vaudenay (EPFL, Switzerland)
• Hongjun Wu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

• Homepage for the project