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NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity and Encryption) was a European research project funded from 2000–2003 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.

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".

Contents 1 Selected algorithms 1.1 Block ciphers 1.2 Public-key encryption 1.3 MAC algorithms and cryptographic hash functions 1.4 Digital signature algorithms 1.5 Identification schemes 2 Project contractors 3 See also 4 External links

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 "*". Most may be used by anyone for any purpose without needing to seek a patent license from anyone; a license agreement is needed for those marked with a "#", but the licensors of those have committed to "reasonable non-discriminatory license terms for all interested", according to a NESSIE project press release.

None of the six stream ciphers submitted to NESSIE were selected since every one fell to cryptanalysis. This surprising result led to the eSTREAM project.

• 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: Katholieke Universiteit 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: 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-auth: Ecole Normale Supérieure, France Télécom, and La Poste

The contractors and their representatives in the project were:

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Prime contractor): Bart Preneel, Alex Biryukov, Antoon Bosselaers, Christophe De Cannière, Bart Van Rompay
• École Normale Supérieure: Jacques Stern, Louis Granboulan, Gwenaëlle Martinet
• Royal Holloway, University of London: Sean Murphy, Alex Dent, Rachel Shipsey, Christine Swart, Juliette White
• Siemens AG: Markus Dichtl, Marcus Schafheutle
• Technion Institute of Technology: Eli Biham, Orr Dunkelman
• Université catholique de Louvain: Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Mathieu Ciet, Francesco Sica
• Universitetet i Bergen: Lars Knudsen, Håvard Raddum

• ECRYPT

• The homepage of the NESSIE project

Block ciphers v • d • e
Algorithms: 3-Way | AES | Akelarre | Anubis | ARIA | BaseKing | Blowfish | C2 | Camellia | CAST-128 | CAST-256 | CIKS-1 | CIPHERUNICORN-A | CIPHERUNICORN-E | CMEA | Cobra | COCONUT98 | Crab | CRYPTON | CS-Cipher | DEAL | DES | DES-X | DFC | E2 | FEAL | FROG | G-DES | GOST | Grand Cru | Hasty Pudding Cipher | Hierocrypt | ICE | IDEA | IDEA NXT | Iraqi | Intel Cascade Cipher | KASUMI | KHAZAD | Khufu and Khafre | KN-Cipher | Libelle | LOKI89/91 | LOKI97 | Lucifer | M6 | MacGuffin | Madryga | MAGENTA | MARS | Mercy | MESH | MISTY1 | MMB | MULTI2 | NewDES | NOEKEON | NUSH | Q | RC2 | RC5 | RC6 | REDOC | Red Pike | S-1 | SAFER | SC2000 | SEED | Serpent | SHACAL | SHARK | Skipjack | SMS4 | Square | TEA | Triple DES | Twofish | UES | Xenon | xmx | XTEA | Zodiac
Design: Feistel network | Key schedule | Product cipher | S-box | SPN Attacks: Brute force | Linear / Differential / Integral cryptanalysis | Mod n | Related-key | Slide | XSL
Standardization: AES process | CRYPTREC | NESSIE Misc: Avalanche effect | Block size | IV | Key size | Modes of operation | Piling-up lemma | Weak key
Cryptographic hash functions and Message authentication codes (MACs) v • d • e
Hash algorithms: Gost-Hash | HAS-160 | HAS-V | HAVAL | MDC-2 | MD2 | MD4 | MD5 | N-Hash | RadioGatún | RIPEMD | SHA family | Snefru | Tiger | VEST | WHIRLPOOL | crypt(3) DES
MAC algorithms: DAA | CBC-MAC | HMAC | OMAC/CMAC | PMAC | UMAC | Poly1305-AES | VEST
Authenticated encryption modes: CCM | EAX | GCM | OCB | VEST   Attacks: Birthday attack | Collision attack | Preimage attack | Rainbow table | Brute force attack
Standardization: CRYPTREC | NESSIE   Misc: Avalanche effect | Hash collision | Hash functions based on block ciphers
Public-key cryptography v • d • e
Algorithms: Cramer-Shoup | DH | DSA | ECDH | ECDSA | EKE | ElGamal | GMR | IES | Lamport | MQV | NTRUEncrypt | NTRUSign | Paillier | Rabin | RSA | Schnorr | SPEKE | SRP | XTR
Theory: Discrete logarithm | Elliptic curve cryptography | RSA problem
Standardization: ANS X9F1 | CRYPTREC | IEEE P1363 | NESSIE | NSA Suite B   Misc: Digital signature | Fingerprint | PKI | Web of trust | Key size
Cryptography v • d • e
History of cryptography | Cryptanalysis | Cryptography portal | Topics in cryptography
Symmetric-key algorithm | Block cipher | Stream cipher | Public-key cryptography | Cryptographic hash function | Message authentication code | Random numbers