Subject: POET: request from the CAESAR secretary, revised paper and web site From: Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:45:31 +0100 (CET) To: crypto-competitions@googlegroups.com Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) Dear all, as requested by the CAESAR secretary, we have clarified the ordering of the POET variants, and we revised the consent (in the original submission, we had written "we" where we should have written "the submitters"). With some additional modifications (see the changelog at page iii), the revised paper can be downloaded from the POET web site: Ordering: 1. POET with 4-round AES 2. POET with Galois-Field multiplications in $GF(2^{128})$ 3. POET with full-round AES Consent The submitters hereby consent to all decisions of the CAESAR selection committee regarding the selection or non-selection of this submission as a second-round candidate, a third-round candidate, a finalist, a member of the final portfolio, or any other designation provided by the committee. The submitters understand that the committee will not comment on the algorithms, except that for each selected algorithm the committee will simply cite the previously published analyses that led to the selection of the algorithm. The submitters understand that the selection of some algorithms is not a negative comment regarding other algorithms, and that an excellent algorithm might fail to be selected simply because not enough analysis was available at the time of the committee decision. The submitters acknowledge that the committee decisions reflect the collective expert judgments of the committee members and are not subject to appeal. The submitters understand that if they disagree with published analyses then they are expected to promptly and publicly respond to those analyses, not to wait for subsequent committee decisions. The submitters understand that this statement is required as a condition of consideration of this submission by the CAESAR selection committee. ------ I love the taste of Cryptanalysis in the morning! ------ --Stefan.Lucks (at) uni-weimar.de, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany--