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The eSTREAM project [1] is a multiyear effort coordinated by the ECRYPT European Network of Excellence for Cryptology. It has been running from 2004 to 2008 and has identified a portfolio of promising new stream ciphers “suitable for widespread adoption” [2]. It has been a major evaluation process for the research in cryptography.
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Symmetric ciphers are usually divided between block ciphers and stream ciphers. While the former have been benefiting from the activity around DES cryptanalysis and the process of AES standardization to get reasonably efficient and trusted algorithms and modes, the latter made less consensus. As an example of such a situation, one can cite the stream cipher section of the final decision document presenting the portfolio of recommended cryptographic primitives at the end of the NESSIE project [3]: “The NESSIE portfolio in this category is empty.”
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The eSTREAM Project. http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/. Accessed January 2011
Call for stream cipher primitives (2004) http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/call/. Accessed January 2011
New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity, and Encryption, NESSIE. https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/nessie/. Accessed January 2011
Robshaw M, Billet O (eds) (2008) New stream cipher designs. Lecture notes in computer science 4986. Springer, Berlin
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Videau, M. (2011). eSTREAM. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_347
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