NESSIE
NESSIE is an acronym for "New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity, and Encryption", a European research project to identify secure cryptographic primitives. The project was comparable to the NIST AES process and the Japanese Government sponsored CRYPTREC project, but with notable differences from both. In particular, there is both overlap and disagreement between the selections and recommendations from NESSIE and CRYPTREC (as of the August 2003 draft report). The NESSIE participants include some of the foremost active cryptographers in the world, as does the CRYPTREC project; selections or recommendations from either must be taken quite seriously regardless of differences in conclusions.NESSIE was intended to identify and evaluate quality cryptographic designs in several categories, and to that end issued a public call for submissions in March 2000. Forty-two were received, and in February 2003 twelve of the submissions were selected. In addition, five algorithms already publicly known, but not explicitly submitted to the project, were chosen as 'selectees'. The project has publicly announced that no weaknesses were found in the selected designs.
The selected algorithms and their submittors or developers are listed below. The five already publicly known, but not formally submitted to the project, are marked with a "*". All, save those marked with a "#", are in the public domain; the developers of those not in the public domain have committed to "reasonable non-discriminatory license terms for all interested", according to a NESSIE project press release.
- MISTY1: Mitsubishi Electric
- Camellia: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone and Mitsubishi Electric
- SHACAL-2: Gemplus
- AES*: (Advanced Encryption Standard) (NIST, FIPS Pub 197) (aka Rijndael)
- ACE Encrypt#: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
- PSEC-KEM: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp
- RSA-KEM*: (draft of ISO/IEC 18033-2)
- Two-Track-MAC: K.U. Leuven and debis AG
- UMAC: Intel Corp, Univ. of Nevada at Reno, IBM Research Laboratory, Technion Institute, and Univ. of California at Davis
- CBC-MAC*: (ISO/IEC 9797-1);
- HMAC*: (ISO/IEC 9797-1);
- Whirlpool (hash): Scopus Tecnologia S.A. and K.U.Leuven
- SHA-256*, SHA-384* and SHA-512*: NSA, (US FIPS 180-2)
- ECDSA#: Certicom Corp
- RSA-PSS: RSA Laboratories
- SFLASH: Schlumberger Corp
- GPS#: Ecole Normale Supérieure, France Télécom, and La Poste
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Prime Contractor): Bart Preneel, Alex Biryukov, Antoon Bosselaers, Christophe De Cannière, Bart Van Rompay
- ÃÂcole Normale Supérieure: Jacques Stern, Louis Granboulan
- Royal Holloway, University of London: Sean Murphy
- Siemens AG: Markus Dichtl
- Technion Institute of Technology: Eli Biham
- Université Catholique de Louvain: Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Mathieu Ciet, Francesco Sica
- Universitetet i Bergen: Lars Knudsen
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