Advanced Encryption Standard: Candidates, Process

• AES Development Effort (Official homepage)
  • AES Discussion Forums (Official)
  • AES Public Comments, Round II (25.05.00)
• The Block Cipher Lounge - AES (Lars Knudsen)
• AES ciphers: Speed (Helger Lipmaa)
• Workgroups and projects
  • Symmetric Key Block Cipher Modes of Operation Workshop (AES related)
  • Project cAESar (Candidate A E S for Analysis and Reviews)
  • Evaluation of Cryptographic Algorithms (University of Cambridge, UK)
  • AES Results & Timings (Louis Granboulan)
  • AES Tests (Purenoise)
• Official homepages of the AES candidate ciphers
  • Cast-256 :Crypton :Deal :DFC :E2
  • Frog :Hasty Pudding :Loki97 :Mars :@RC6
  • @Rijndael :Safer+ :Serpent :Twofish
• Additional information on algorithms
  • @Twofish
  • DFCv2
• Unselected algorithms for Round1
• Welcome to AES Booking Services!
• New Block Ciphers (Lars Knudsen)
• Advanced Encryption Standard Notice 1/97
• Design Tradeoffs of the AES Candidates (Eli Biham, Asiacrypt '98 (slides))
• Implementations
  • The Delphi Cryptography Page
  • Performance Comparison of the AES Submissions (Schneier, Kelsey, Whiting, Wagner, Hall, Ferguson)
  • Performance Analysis of AES candidates on the 6805 CPU core (by Geoffrey Keating)
  • ALTIVEC Technology Training (AES/DES/3DES/Kasumi)
  • Brian Gladman's page
    • AES Second Round Implementations
  • FPGA
    • Implementation of the Twofish Cipher Using FPGA Devices (Pawel Chodowiec, Kris Gaj)
    • Fast Implementation and Fair Comparison of the Final Candidates for Advanced Encryption Standard Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (Kris Gaj and Pawel Chodowiec, RSA 2001)
  • Other Hardware
    • NSA Hardware Analysis (Includes VHDL source code)
  • IAIK Java Implementations of Second Round AES Candidate Algorithms
• Cryptanalysis
  • MARS
    • MARS Attacks! Preliminary Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round MARS Variants (Kelsey, Schneier, 2000)
    • The Complete Distribution of Linear Probabilities of MARS' s-box (Kazumaro Aoki)
  • Serpent
    • Preliminary Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round Serpent (Tadayoshi Kohno, John Kelsey, Bruce Schneier, 2000)
    • The Rectangle Attack - Rectangling the Serpent (Biham Eli, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, eprint 2001/021)
• The Candidate AES Cipher Algorithms and Their Use With IPsec (Internet Draft)
• Links
  • AES related links (KAIST)
• Overviews
  • Communications Security for the Twenty-first Century: The Advanced Encryption Standard (Susan Landau, AMS Notices, Apr 2000)
• Press coverage of AES = Rijndael event (02.10.00)
  • Belgian algorithm becomes new American Encryption Standard (@COSIC)
• AES Selection Process
  • Status reports
    • Status Report on the First Round of the Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (Nechvatal et al)

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