This is the home page for eSTREAM, the ECRYPT Stream Cipher Project. This multi-year effort running from 2004 to 2008 has identified a portfolio of promising new stream ciphers. All information on the stream cipher project can be found on this site, including a here of the project and further technical background on the project.
Announcements
A list of all announcements can be found here. The most recent ones are listed below:
The eSTREAM Portfolio (April 2008)
The eSTREAM portfolio has been finalised and the following ciphers have been chosen for the portfolio:Profile 1 (SW) Profile 2 (HW) HC-128 F-FCSR-H v2 Rabbit Grain v1 Salsa20/12 MICKEY v2 SOSEMANUK Trivium A short report on the portfolio and the end of eSTREAM can be found here.
We would like to thank everyone that contributed to eSTREAM in any way. For the future, we expect that research on the eSTREAM submissions in general, and the portfolio ciphers in particular, will continue. It is therefore possible that changes to the eSTREAM portfolio might be needed in the future. If so, any future revisions will continue to be made available via these pages.
SASC 2008
Call for participation [PDF] (submission deadline: January 11, 2008)
Workshop website: http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stvl/sasc2008/On February 13 - February 14, 2008, a special workshop hosted by the ECRYPT Network of Excellence will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland (just after the FSE workshop). SASC 2008 will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas about all aspects of stream ciphers. Particular attention will be focused on submissions to eSTREAM and we expect papers and discussions at SASC 2008 to be helpful in identifying the most promising stream ciphers in the final phase.
Beginning of Phase 3 (April 2007)
Phase 3 of eSTREAM has now officially started. The phase 3 candidates can be found here.eSTREAM Phase 2 Report
The eSTREAM Phase 2 report is available here.
Mailinglist
If you want to be emailed when important new information appears, you can be added to the ECRYPT mailinglist by sending a mail to estream@ecrypt.eu.org with as subject "Add me to mailing list".
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