Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.60103023; 60083007 (国家自然科学基金); the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China under Grant No.G1999035810 (国家重点基础研究发展规划(973))
At the 2nd NESSIE workshop on 12-13 September 2001 ,NESSIE gives the selection of 7 primitives from 17 block cipher candidates for further evaluation in Phase Ⅱ. In this paper,the NESSIE evaluation criteria is introd...