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and [[Ross Anderson]]'s ''Security Engineering'' <ref>{{cite book|author=Ross Anderson|title=Security Engineering|url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html}}</ref>. | and [[Ross Anderson]]'s ''Security Engineering'' <ref>{{cite book|author=Ross Anderson|title=Security Engineering|url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html}}</ref>. | ||
At the time of the AES competition, the best online index of research was the [http://www2.mat.dtu.dk/people/Lars.R.Knudsen/aes.html Block Cipher Lounge] maintained by [[Lars Knudsen]] and [[Vincent Rijmen]. | At the time of the AES competition, the best online index of research was the [http://www2.mat.dtu.dk/people/Lars.R.Knudsen/aes.html Block Cipher Lounge] maintained by [[Lars Knudsen]] and [[Vincent Rijmen]]. | ||
Most of the people mentioned above, and a number of others well-known in the field, participated in the AES process. | Most of the people mentioned above, and a number of others well-known in the field, participated in the AES process. | ||
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The AES competition involved many of the world's top cryptographers.
Some of the major developments in cryptography before AES were:
- DES from an IBM team that included Don Coppersmith
- Differential cryptanalysis, discovered by Coppersmith et al, but kept secret at NSA request. Re-discovered and first published in open literature by Eli Biham and Adi Shamir.
- Linear cryptanalysis, from Mitsuru Matsui.
- The RSA algorithm for public key cryptography, from Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman.
At least two writers have proposed methods of making ciphers provably resistant to linear and differential cryptanalysis, Carlisle Adams in CAST and Serge Vaudenay with his decorrelation theory.
Standard references in the field include Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography [1] and Ross Anderson's Security Engineering [2].
At the time of the AES competition, the best online index of research was the Block Cipher Lounge maintained by Lars Knudsen and Vincent Rijmen.
Most of the people mentioned above, and a number of others well-known in the field, participated in the AES process.
Here is a table showing some of the major players. For several papers, some of the co-authors are omitted to make the table more readable; see references in the main article for complete co-author lists.
| AES cipher | Team included | Analysis from |
|---|---|---|
| Rijndael | Rijmen, Daemen | Ferguson, Schroeppel, Whiting |
| Twofish | Schneier, Kelsey, Whiting, Wagner, Ferguson | |
| Serpent | Anderson, Biham, Knudsen | |
| RC6 | Rivest | |
| MARS | Coppersmith | |
| Hasty Pudding | Schroeppel | |
| FROG | Schneier, Wagner, Ferguson | |
| Magenta | Schneier, Biham, Shamir, Ferguson, Knudsen | |
| E2 | Matsui | |
| DEAL | Knudsen | Schneier, Kelsey |
| DFC | Vaudenay | Knudsen, Rijmen |
| CAST-256 | Adams |
Quite a few of these people are also well-known for breaking ciphers or other security systems. Perhaps the best-publicised break was Wagner and Ian Goldberg cracking Netscape's SSL via flaws in the random number generator. Anderson or his students break almost every smartcard that comes on the market. Knudsen, Biham, Schneier and Kelsey have all published many papers on cryptanalysis of various ciphers. Some of the others have various breaks to their credit as well.
References
- ↑ Schneier, Bruce (2nd edition, 1996,), Applied Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-11709-9
- ↑ Ross Anderson. Security Engineering.