Plasencia Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023

Solid Basis for Symmetric Cryptography

Symmetric cryptography, essential for enabling secure communications, has benefited from an explosion of new results in the last two decades, in big part due to several standardization efforts: many public competitions have been launched since 1997, where the community proposes cryptographic constructions and simultaneously evaluates their security and performance. The security of symmetric cryptography is based on cryptanalysis: we only gain confidence in a symmetric cryptographic function through extensive and continuous scrutiny. However, the current context has not allowed the community to digest all the new findings, as can be seen from several recurrent issues. The two main ones are:…

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