This report presents a response to the call for candidates issued by the National Institute for Standards and Technologies (the Advanced Encryption Standard project). The proposed candidate - called DFC as for "Decorrelated Fast Cipher" - is based on the recent decorrelation technique. This provides provable security against several classes of attacks which include Differential Cryptanalysis and Linear Cryptanalysis.
Serge Vaudenay, Lauren De Meyer
Serge Vaudenay, Subhadeep Banik, Fatma Betül Durak, Khashayar Barooti