Part I

Prepare a list of 10 most relevant references arranged in the logical top-down order starting from the most broad general picture, and ending with the detailed view of the problem to be solved.

If possible each list should include at least one instance of each of the following types of references: book chapter, journal article, conference article, white paper, web site, standard, MS Thesis, ECE 646 project report from previous years, etc.

Please use a format of references recommended in the Microsoft Word Template for the Preparation of Papers for IEEE Transactions and Journals.

Please, submit your three lists in the MS Word format using WebCT.

Get familiar with the webpages

• Overview of the AES Development Effort

• NIST AES page

• NESSIE project

• eSTREAM Phase 2

Read selected chapters from the following reports to the extent necessary to perform tasks formulated in Problem 1.

1. NIST's Report on the Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), available at http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/

2. "Hardware performance of the AES finalists - survey and analysis of results," by Kris Gaj and Pawel Chodowiec, available at http://ece.gmu.edu/crypto/publications.htm

3. NESSIE: Methodology for Comparing the Performance of Primitives on a Fair and Equal Basis, available at
   https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/nessie/deliverables/D6_NessiePerfMeth.pdf

4. NESSIE: Description of Methodology for Security Evaluation, available at
   https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/nessie/deliverables/D10_NessieSecEvMeth.pdf

5. Lejla Batina, Sandeep Kumar, Joseph Lano, Kirstin Lemke, Nele Mentens, Christof Paar, Bart Preneel, Kazuo Sakiyama and Ingrid Verbauwhede, "Testing Framework for eSTREAM Profile II Candidates", available at
   http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/papersdir/2006/014.pdf

6. Christophe De Cannière, "eSTREAM testing framework," available at
   http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/perf/
    

Write a technical paper (12 pages maximum, 11 pt font minimum) describing

    - similarities and differences between the AES, NESSIE, and eSTREAM contests in terms of

• goals

• organization (including period and timetable of the project, coordinators and evaluators, funding, related workshops/conferences, voting scheme, etc.)

• coverage of cryptographic algorithm types

• number of candidates and origins of submissions

• evaluation methodology used for comparing

• security

• performance in software

• performance in hardware

• other factors

• major difficulties in comparing candidates and the ways of overcoming these difficulties

• results of the contest

• follow-up standardization effort.

Please, submit your report in the PDF or MS Word format using WebCT.
 

1. Miles Smid , "A Strategy for Analyzing Public Comments and Preparing the Round 2 Status Report," and "AES Issues," available at http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/round2/pubcmnts.htm
2. Bruce Schneier, Doug Whiting, "A Performance Comparison of the Five AES Finalists," available at http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/round2/conf3/aes3papers.html