[HGI-news-int] Ecrypt II Resources

[English Newsletter of the Horst Gö rtz Institute of IT Security in Bochum]

Dear all,

Note the the European network of excellence Ecrypt II has several 
resources available on its site. They can be downloaded for free. In 
many instances, you are welcome to contribute. Other documents will 
simply save you time when working in this area.

URL: http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/

In particular you can find
(following the structure of the menu on the left):

OTHER -> Documents
* General: ECRYPT Yearly Report on Algorithms and Key Lengths
* SymLab deliverables: The eSTREAM Portfolio Annual Update
* MAYA deliverables: Wiki on Hard Problems in Cryptography
* VAMPIRE deliverables: Report on Physical Security of Contact-less
Cryptographic Devices

OTHER -> Lounges
 * AES Lounge
 * Hash Function Zoo
 * Lightweight Cryptography Lounge
 * Hard Problems in Cryptography (Wiki)
 * Side Channel Cryptanalysis Lounge

OTHER -> The eSTREAM Project (Stream Ciphers)
* eSTREAM Portfolio of stream ciphers
* DOCUMENTS -> Software performance
* DOCUMENTS -> Hardware performance
* DOCUMENTS -> Statistical testing

OTHER -> eBACS (ECRYPT Benchmarking of Cryptographic Systems)
* eBATS (ECRYPT Benchmarking of Asymmetric Systems), a competition to
identify the most efficient public-key systems
* eBASC (ECRYPT Benchmarking of Stream Ciphers), a continuation of the
benchmarking carried out in eSTREAM, the ECRYPT Stream Cipher Project
* eBASH (ECRYPT Benchmarking of All Submitted Hashes), a new project to
measure the performance of hash functions.

WORKSHOPS & SCHOOLS -> Past Events (excerpt)
* SPEED-CC --Software Performance Enhancement for Encryption and
Decryption and Cryptographic Compilers (October 12-13, 2009, Berlin,
Germany)
* Workshop on Cryptology: Progress and Challenges (September 14, 2009,
Leuven-Heverlee (Arenberg castle), Belgium)
 * SHARCS - Special-purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic
Systems (September 9-10, 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland)
 * School on Provable Security (September 7-11, 2009, Barcelona, Spain)
* Workshop on RFID Security 2009 (June 30-July 2, 2009, Leuven, Belgium)

There are many, many more resources available for you.
Just come and browse around!

Ecrypt II partners are Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium /  École
Normale Supérieure, France / Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany / Royal
Holloway, University of London, UK / Università degli Studi di Salerno,
Italy / University of Bristol, UK / France Telecom R&D, France / IBM
Research GmbH, Switzerland /  Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the
Netherlands / Graz University of Technology, Austria / Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Ecrypt II also includes
further adjoint members.

Best regards,
Christopher Wolf