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Preface
• 2 training schools
• 3 workshops and 1 conference
In total, more than 120 researchers took part in related events or activities. We
want to thank the Work Package Leaders and Vice-Leaders Prof. Serge Vaudenay,
Prof. Frederic Armknecht, Prof. Andrey Bogdanov, Prof. Mirosław Kutyłowski,
Prof. Lejla Batina, Prof. Ricardo Chaves, Prof. Flavio Garcia, and Prof. Alex
Biryukov. A special thanks as well to Prof. Bart Preneel.
Book Contents
The book is divided into 13 chapters. They can be read independently, but are
organised into 5 parts covering topics with some commonalities.
In Part I, the reader can find a very interesting and general introduction by
Mirosław Kutyłowski, Piotr Syga, and Moti Yung called Emerging Security
Challenges for Ubiquitous Devices.
After that, there is a part on Lightweight Cryptographic Primitives where 3
chapters try to offer insightful views of the state of the art on symmetric lightweight
cryptographic primitives. The chapter Catalog and Illustrative Examples of
Lightweight Cryptographic Primitives by Aleksandra Mileva, Vesna Dimitrova,
Orhun Kara, and Miodrag Mihaljevi´ c nicely exposes the state of the art in the discipline, covering the most important proposals in detail. This is aptly complemented
by the next chapter Selected Design and Analysis Techniques in Contemporary
Symmetric Encryption, where Vasily Mikhalev, Miodrag Mihaljevi´ c, Orhun Kara,
and Frederik Armknecht offer a splendid review of the techniques and reasoning
behind the most successful approaches to designing and attacking these systems.
Last, but not least, we conclude this part with an exceptional first-person account
of the many issues that surrounded the failed attempts to standardise a couple
of NSA’s proposed lightweight block ciphers in An Account of the ISO/IEC
Standardization of the Simon and Speck Block Cipher Families by Atul Luyks
and Tomer Ashur.
In the next part of the book, called Authentication Protocols, we focus on
lightweight and ultra-lightweight authentication protocols. The section starts with
a chapter by Lucjan Hanzlik and Mirosław Kutyłowski titled ePassport and eID
Technologies, where the authors examine the existing ePassport literature and offer
some new solutions and open problems. Xavier Carpent, Paolo DArco, and Roberto
De Prisco contributed the chapter Ultra-lightweight Authentication where they
elaborate on the good and bad practices of previous ultra-lightweight protocols.
Finally, Gildas Avoine, Ioana Boureanu, Pascal Lafourcade, David Gérault, Gerhard
Hancke, Pascal Lafourcade, and Cristina Onete end this part of the book with
their work From Relay Attacks to Distance-Bounding Protocols, an area of
research that has seen many developments recently and some successful industrial
applications that make it more timely and relevant than ever.
Preface
• 2 training schools
• 3 workshops and 1 conference
In total, more than 120 researchers took part in related events or activities. We
want to thank the Work Package Leaders and Vice-Leaders Prof. Serge Vaudenay,
Prof. Frederic Armknecht, Prof. Andrey Bogdanov, Prof. Mirosław Kutyłowski,
Prof. Lejla Batina, Prof. Ricardo Chaves, Prof. Flavio Garcia, and Prof. Alex
Biryukov. A special thanks as well to Prof. Bart Preneel.
Book Contents
The book is divided into 13 chapters. They can be read independently, but are
organised into 5 parts covering topics with some commonalities.
In Part I, the reader can find a very interesting and general introduction by
Mirosław Kutyłowski, Piotr Syga, and Moti Yung called Emerging Security
Challenges for Ubiquitous Devices.
After that, there is a part on Lightweight Cryptographic Primitives where 3
chapters try to offer insightful views of the state of the art on symmetric lightweight
cryptographic primitives. The chapter Catalog and Illustrative Examples of
Lightweight Cryptographic Primitives by Aleksandra Mileva, Vesna Dimitrova,
Orhun Kara, and Miodrag Mihaljevi´ c nicely exposes the state of the art in the discipline, covering the most important proposals in detail. This is aptly complemented
by the next chapter Selected Design and Analysis Techniques in Contemporary
Symmetric Encryption, where Vasily Mikhalev, Miodrag Mihaljevi´ c, Orhun Kara,
and Frederik Armknecht offer a splendid review of the techniques and reasoning
behind the most successful approaches to designing and attacking these systems.
Last, but not least, we conclude this part with an exceptional first-person account
of the many issues that surrounded the failed attempts to standardise a couple
of NSA’s proposed lightweight block ciphers in An Account of the ISO/IEC
Standardization of the Simon and Speck Block Cipher Families by Atul Luyks
and Tomer Ashur.
In the next part of the book, called Authentication Protocols, we focus on
lightweight and ultra-lightweight authentication protocols. The section starts with
a chapter by Lucjan Hanzlik and Mirosław Kutyłowski titled ePassport and eID
Technologies, where the authors examine the existing ePassport literature and offer
some new solutions and open problems. Xavier Carpent, Paolo DArco, and Roberto
De Prisco contributed the chapter Ultra-lightweight Authentication where they
elaborate on the good and bad practices of previous ultra-lightweight protocols.
Finally, Gildas Avoine, Ioana Boureanu, Pascal Lafourcade, David Gérault, Gerhard
Hancke, Pascal Lafourcade, and Cristina Onete end this part of the book with
their work From Relay Attacks to Distance-Bounding Protocols, an area of
research that has seen many developments recently and some successful industrial
applications that make it more timely and relevant than ever.