CAESAR Competition


The Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness is a competition organized by a group of international cryptologic researchers to encourage the design of authenticated encryption schemes. The competition was announced at the Early Symmetric Crypto workshop in January 2013 and the final portfolio in February 2019.

Use Cases

The final CAESAR portfolio is organized into three use cases:
  • 1: Lightweight applications
  • 2: High-performance applications
  • 3: Defense in depth

    Final Portfolio

The final portfolio announced by the CAESAR committee is:
Use Case 1 Use Case 2 Use Case 3
AsconAEGIS-128Deoxys-II
ACORNOCBCOLM

CAESAR committee

The committee in charge of the CAESAR Competition consisted of: