Block cipher/External Links

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FAQ documents

• Index of FAQs with links to many others
• RSA Laboratories' Frequently Asked Questions About Today's Cryptography, a good introduction but not up-to-date

AES links

• NIST page, official page for the AES standard
• AES Lounge, extensive information, including tables of cryptanalytic results and links to hardware implementations.
• software implementations from Helger Lipmaa
• software implementations from Brian Gladwin

Homepages for block ciphers

• Blowfish
• Twofish
• Serpent
• RC5 and RC6
• MARS
• Hasty Pudding
• TEA
• Camellia
• SEED
• LOKI97

RFCs for block ciphers

These RFCs give specifications for the block ciphers themselves.

• RFC 2040, RC5
• RFC 2144, CAST-128
• RFC 2612, CAST-256
• RFC 3713, Camellia
• RFC 4629, SEED

There are other RFCs covering block cipher modes of operation and how these ciphers should be used in protocols such as IPsec, Open PGP, SSL and SSH. For details, see the linked articles or use RFC search.

Other links

• Block Cipher Lounge, once an excellent index of current research, now out-of-date
• Literature survey on S-box design