Public reports of the NESSIE project


Phase 1 public reports

Phase 2 public reports Updated


Phase 1 public reports

NES/DOC/KUL/WP3/005/a Paulo Barreto, Vincent Rijmen, Jorge Nakahara Jr., Bart Preneel, Joos Vandewalle, Hae Y. Kim Improved SQUARE attacks against reduced-round HIEROCRYPT  
NES/DOC/KUL/WP3/006/1 Bart Van Rompay, Vincent Rijmen, Jorge Nakahara Jr A first report on CS-Cipher, Hierocrypt, Grand Cru, SAFER++, and SHACAL 12/03/2001
NES/DOC/KUL/WP3/008/1 Bart Van Rompay A first report on UMAC 12/03/2001
NES/DOC/KUL/WP3/012/1 Jorge Nakahara The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission NUSH 22/10/2001
NES/DOC/KUL/WP3/013/1 Jorge Nakahara The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission RC6 22/10/2001
NES/DOC/KUL/WP3/014/1 Jorge Nakahara The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission SAFER++ 22/10/2001
NES/DOC/KUL/WP3/016/1 Jorge Nakahara The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission SHACAL 22/10/2001
NES/DOC/ENS/WP3/004/1 Eiichiro Fujisaki, Tatsuaki Okamoto, David Pointcheval, Jacques Stern RSA-OAEP is Secure under the RSA Assumption 29/05/2001
NES/DOC/ENS/WP3/005/2 Gwenaëlle Martinet The Security Assumptions 07/03/2001
NES/DOC/ENS/WP3/006/2 Gwenaëlle Martinet QUARTZ, FLASH, and SFLASH 07/03/2001
NES/DOC/ENS/WP3/007/2 Gwenaëlle Martinet RSA-OAEP and RSA-PSS 02/03/2001
NES/DOC/ENS/WP3/008/2 Mathieu Ciet, Gwenaëlle Martinet, Francesco Sica ACE: Advanced Cryptographic Engine 02/03/2001
NES/DOC/ENS/WP3/009/a Gwenaëlle Martinet Selecting a C*-- scheme 01/06/2001
NES/DOC/ENS/WP3/010/a Gwenaëlle Martinet Comparison of two signature schemes based on the RSA assumption 01/06/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP2/001/2 Sean Murphy The Power of NIST's Statistical Testing of AES Candidates, 14/03/2000
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/004/b Rachel Shipsey GPS 31/01/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/005/b Rachel Shipsey Esign 1/02/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/006/b Rachel Shipsey ECDSA 2/02/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/007/c Rachel Shipsey ECIES 1/03/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/008/b Rachel Shipsey PSEC-1-2-3 2/02/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/009/2 Juliette White LEVIATHAN stream cipher 2/02/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/010/2 Juliette White LILI-128 stream cipher 2/02/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/011/2 Juliette White EPOC asymmetric encryption scheme 2/02/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/012/a Rachel Shipsey Selecting a Version of PSEC 27/02/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/014/a Rachel Shipsey Summary of Victor Shoup's ISO Document on Public Key Encryption 22/03/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP3/015/a Rachel Shipsey How long ...? 19/04/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/003/1 Pascale Serf The degrees of completeness, of avalanche effect, and of strict avalanche criterion for MARS, RC6, Rijndael, Serpent, and Twofish with reduced number of rounds 3/04/2000
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/015/2 Markus Dichtl Statistical Results for the NESSIE Submission SOBER-t16 14/03/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/016/2 Markus Dichtl Statistical Results for the NESSIE Submission SOBER-t32 07/03/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/017/2 Markus Dichtl Statistical Results for the NESSIE Submission SNOW with 128-bit key size 14/03/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/018/3 Bernd Meyer About the NESSIE submission ``BMGL: Synchronous Key-stream Generator with Provable Security'' 14/03/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/019/2 Markus Dichtl, Pascale Serf About the NESSIE submission ``Using the general next bit predictor like an evaluation criteria'' 19/03/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/025/2 Marcus Schafheutle A First Report on the Stream Ciphers SOBER-t16 and SOBER-t32 26/07/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/026/2 Marcus Schafheutle A First Report on the Stream Cipher SNOW 26/07/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/027/1 Marcus Schafheutle Statistical Attacks on the Stream Cipher LEVIATHAN 29/03/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/034/1 Marcus Schafheutle The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission SC2000 20/06/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/036/1 Marcus Schafheutle The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission Two-Track-MAC 11/07/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/037/1 Marcus Schafheutle The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission Whirlpool 11/07/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/038/1 Stefan Pyka The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission UMAC 26/07/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/039/1 Stefan Pyka The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission BMGL 03/08/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/040/1 Marcus Schaftheutle The Statistical Evaluation of the SOBER-t Key Expansion 30/07/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP3/041/1 Stefan Pyka The Statistical Evaluation of the SNOW Key Expansion 03/08/2001
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/001/1 Eli Biham, Vladimir Furman Impossible Differential on 8-Round MARS' Core 11/09/2000
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/002/1 Eli Biham Cryptanalysis of Patarin's 2-Round Public Key System with S-Boxes (2R)  
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/004/1 Eli Biham, Vladimir Furman Improved Impossible Differentials on Twofish 11/09/2000
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/005/a Eli Biham, Orr Dunkelman Cryptanalysis of the A5/1 GSM Stream Cipher  
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/006/a Eli Biham, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller The Rectangle Attack - Rectangling the Serpent 11/01/2001
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/008/1 Eli Biham, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller Linear Cryptanalysis of Reduced Round Serpent 20/06/2001
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/009/1 Eli Biham, Vladimir Furman Differential Cryptanalysis of Nimbus 29/11/2000
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/011/b Eli Biham, Orr Dunkelman, Vladimir Furman, Tal Mor Preliminary report on the NESSIE submissions Anubis, Camellia, IDEA, Khazad, Misty1, Nimbus, Q  
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/012/1 Eli Biham, Vladimir Furman, Michal Misztal, Vincent Rijmen Differential Cryptanalysis of Q 11/02/2001
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/014/a Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller Boomerang and Rectangle Attacks on SC2000 03/07/2001
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/019/1 Yan Braziler The statistical evaluation of the NESSIE submission Camellia 28/11/2001
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/020/1 Yan Braziler The statistical evaluation of the NESSIE submission Grand Cru 28/11/2001
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/021/1 Yan Braziler The statistical evaluation of the NESSIE submission Hierocrypt-3 28/11/2001
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/022/1 Yan Braziler The statistical evaluation of the NESSIE submission Hierocrypt-L1 28/11/2001
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/023/1 Yan Braziler The statistical evaluation of the NESSIE submission Misty 28/11/2001
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/001/a Lars Knudsen, Håvard Raddum Linear approximations to the MARS S-box 6/04/2000
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/002/1 Lars Knudsen The Twofish S-boxes 17/03/2000
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/003/a Lars R. Knudsen The Number of Rounds in Block Ciphers 12/05/2000
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/004/a Lars R. Knudsen Trawling Twofish (revisited) 15/05/2000
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/005/a Lars R. Knudsen, Håvard Raddum Recommendation to NIST for the AES 15/05/2000
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/006/a Lars R. Knudsen Block chaining modes of operation 6/10/2000
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/007/b Lars R. Knudsen, Håvard Raddum A first report on Whirlpool, NUSH, SC2000, Noekeon, Two-Track-Mac and RC6 07/03/2001
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/008/1 Håvard Raddum, Lars R. Knudsen A differential attack on reduced-round SC2000 30/04/2001
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/009/1 Lars R. Knudsen, Havard Raddum On Noekeon 24/04/2001
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/010/1 Håvard Raddum The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission CS-cipher 20/09/2001
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/011/1 Håvard Raddum The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission Anubis 20/09/2001
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/012/1 Håvard Raddum The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission IDEA 20/09/2001
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/013/1 Håvard Raddum The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission Khazad 20/09/2001
NES/DOC/UIB/WP3/014/1 Håvard Raddum The Statistical Evaluation of the NESSIE Submission Noekeon 20/09/2001
NES/DOC/EXT/WP3/001/2 Steve Babbage Cryptanalysis of LILI-128 22/01/2001

Phase 2 public reports

NES/DOC/KUL/WP5/010/a  Christophe De Canniere  Guess and Determine Attack on SOBER  12/11/2001
NES/DOC/KUL/WP5/011/a  Christophe De Canniere  Guess and Determine Attack on SNOW  12/11/2001
NES/DOC/KUL/WP5/017/1  Jorge Nakahara Jr, Paulo S.L.M. Barreto, Bart Preneel, Joos Vandewalle, Hae Y. Kim  SQUARE Attacks on Reduced-Round PES and IDEA Block Ciphers  19/11/2001
NES/DOC/KUL/WP5/19/1 Alex Biryukov, Jorge Nakahara Jr, Bart Preneel, Joos Vandewalle New Weak Key Classes of IDEA  29/06/2002
NES/DOC/KUL/WP5/022/1  Elisabeth Oswald and Bart Preneel  A Theoretical Evaluation of some NESSIE Candidates regarding their Susceptibility towards Power Analysis Attacks  04/10/2002
NES/DOC/KUL/WP6/023/1 Siddika Berna Ors, Lejla Batina, Bart Preneel  Hardware Implementation of Elliptic Curve Processor over GF(p)  10/10/2002
NES/DOC/KUL/WP5/027/1  Elisabeth Oswald and Bart Preneel  A Survey on Passive Side-Channel Attacks and their Countermeasures for the NESSIE Public-Key Cryptosystems  08/01/2003
NES/DOC/KUL/WP5/30/1 Jorge Nakahara Jr, Bart Preneel, Joos Vandewalle  Impossible Differential Attacks on reduced-Round SAFER ciphers  22/02/2003
NES/DOC/ENS/WP1/018/1 Emmanuelle Dottax Tweak Reviews: ESIGN, RSA-PSS, QUARTZ and SFLASH 08/01/2002
NES/DOC/ENS/WP5/012/3 Louis Granboulan RSA hybrid encryption schemes  19/12/2001
NES/DOC/ENS/WP5/019/3 Louis Granboulan How to repair ESIGN 13/09/2002
NES/DOC/ENS/WP5/021/2 Louis Granboulan Short signatures in the random oracle model 20/08/2002
NES/DOC/ENS/WP5/022/1  Louis Granboulan  PECDSA. How to build a DL-based signature scheme with the best proven security  20/09/2002
NES/DOC/ENS/WP5/026/1  Antoine Joux and Gwenaëlle Martinet  Weaknesses in Quartz Signature Scheme  24/01/2003
NES/DOC/ENS/WP5/028/1  Emmanuelle Dottax  Three asymmetric schemes based upon the factoring assumption: EPOC-2, HIME(R) and Rabin-SAEP  10/02/2003
NES/DOC/ENS/WP6/030/2  Emmanuelle Dottax  Results on the implementations of KHAZAD, MISTY1 and SAFER++ on a 8051 cpu  17/09/2002
NES/DOC/ENS/WP5/031/1  Emmanuelle Dottax  Fault Attacks on NESSIE Signature and Identification Schemes  08/10/2002
NES/DOC/ENS/WP5/035/1  Emmanuelle Dottax  Fault and chosen modulus attacks on some NESSIE asymmetric primitives  10/02/2003
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/016/1 Rachel Shipsey Tweak review: PSEC-KEM 19/11/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/017/3  Alexander W. Dent  An evaluation of EPOC-2  05/09/2002
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/018/1 Alexander W. Dent A review of the tweaks and code of EPOC-2 17/12/2001
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/019/2 Alex Dent A review of the code supplied with the asymmetric ciphers 08/05/2002
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/020/a Alexander W. Dent and Emmanuelle Dottax An overview of side-channel attacks on the asymmetric NESSIE encryption primitives 14/05/2002
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/021/3 Alexander W. Dent Adapting the weaknesses of the Random Oracle model to the Generic Group model 19/09/2002
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/022/2 Sean Murphy and Matthew Robshaw  Essential Algebraic Structure within the AES  26/09/2002
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/023/3  Alexander W. Dent  ACE-KEM and the general KEM-DEM structure 19/09/2002
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/026/1  Sean Murphy and Matthew Robshaw  Comments on the Security of the AES and the XSL Technique  26/09/2002
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/028/2  Alexander W. Dent  ECIES-KEM vs. PSEC-KEM  13/11/2002
NES/DOC/RHU/WP5/029/1  Alexander W. Dent  A Designer's Guide to KEMs  13/11/2002
NES/DOC/SAG/WP1/048/1  Marcus Schafheutle  Tweak Review: BMGL 08/05/2002
NES/DOC/SAG/WP5/044/1 Stefan Pyka The Statistical Evaluation of the SNOW Initialization Vector Expansion 30/10/2001
NES/DOC/SAG/WP5/046/1  Markus Dichtl and Marcus Schafheutle  Linearity Properties of the SOBER-t32 Key Loading 19/11/2001
NES/DOC/TEC/WP2/007/2  Arueh Bibliowicz, Pnina Cohen, Eli Biham  A System for Assisting Analysis of Some Block Ciphers  13/03/2003
NES/DOC/TEC/WP3/015/a  Orr Dunkelman  Safety Margins for NESSIE submissions - Safer++ and Hierocrypt (L1/3)  31/12/2002
NES/DOC/TEC/WP5/017/1  Eli Biham, Orr Dunkelamn, Nathan Keller  Enhancing Differential-Linear Cryptanalysis  31/12/2002
NES/DOC/TEC/WP5/18/1  Eli Biham Orr Dunkelman Nathan Keller  New Results on Boomerang and Rectangle Attacks  13/03/2003
NES/DOC/TEC/WP6/024/2  Markus Dichtl, Eli Biham Extended NESSIE Standard Interface for Symmetric and Asymmetric Algorithms  28/06/2002
NES/DOC/TEC/WP6/026/1 Eli Biham Optimization of Idea 27/01/2002
NES/DOC/TEC/WP5/029/a  Orr Dunkelamn  Comparing MISTY1 and KASUMI  31/12/2002
NES/DOC/UCL/WP5/002/1  Gilles Piret, Jean-Jacques Quisquater  Integral Cryptanalysis on reduced-round Safer++  14/02/2003
NES/DOC/UCL/WP6/002/2  Francesco Sica, Mathieu Ciet and Jean-Jacques Quisquater  Analysis of the Gallant-Lambert-Vanstone Method based on Efficient Endomorphisms: Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curves  20/09/2002
NES/DOC/UIB/WP5/015/1 Lars R. Knudsen Integral cryptanalysis 11/12/2001
NES/DOC/UIB/WP5/016/2  Lars Knudsen  Non-random properties of reduced-round Whirlpool  15/08/2002
NES/DOC/UIB/WP5/017/1  Lars Knudsen  Quadratic relations in Khazad and Whirlpool  27/06/2002
NES/DOC/UIB/WP5/020/A  Matthew G. Parker  Generalised S-Box Nonlinearity  18/02/2003
NES/DOC/UIB/WP5/022/1  Lars Knudsen  Correlations in RC6 on 256-bit blocks  30/09/2002
NES/DOC/UIB/WP5/024/2  Lars R. Knudsen  Analysis of RMAC  14/11/2002
NES/DOC/EXT/WP5/002/1 Taizo Shirai, Kyoji Shibutani On the diffusion matrix employed in the Whirlpool hashing function 11/03/2003