NESSIE

NESSIE was intended to identify and evaluate quality cryptographic designs in several categories, and to that end issued a public call for submissions in March 2000. Forty-two were received, and in February 2003 twelve of the submissions were selected. In addition, five algorithms already publicly known, but not explicitly submitted to the project, were chosen as "selectees". The project has publicly announced that "no weaknesses were found in the selected designs".

Selected algorithms

The selected algorithms and their submitters or developers are listed below. The five already publicly known, but not formally submitted to the project, are marked with a "*". Most may be used by anyone for any purpose without needing to seek a patent license from anyone; a license agreement is needed for those marked with a "#", but the licensors of those have committed to "reasonable non-discriminatory license terms for all interested", according to a NESSIE project press release.

None of the six stream ciphers submitted to NESSIE were selected because every one fell to cryptanalysis. This surprising result led to the eSTREAM project.

Block ciphers

• MISTY1: Mitsubishi Electric
• AES*: (Advanced Encryption Standard) (NIST, FIPS Pub 197) (aka Rijndael)
• Camellia: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone and Mitsubishi Electric
• SHACAL-2: Gemplus

Collision-Resistant Hash Functions

• WHIRLPOOL: Scopus Tecnologia S.A. and K.U.Leuven
• SHA-256*, SHA-384* and SHA-512*: NSA, (US FIPS 180-2)

Message Authentication Codes

• UMAC: Intel Corp, Univ. of Nevada at Reno, IBM Research Laboratory, Technion Institute, and Univ. of California at Davis
• Two-Track-MAC: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and debis AG
• EMAC: Berendschot et al.
• HMAC*: (ISO/IEC 9797-1);

Asymmetric encryption schemes

• PSEC-KEM: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp
• RSA-KEM*: RSA key exchange mechanism (draft of ISO/IEC 18033-2)
• ACE Encrypt#: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory

Digital signature algorithms

• RSA-PSS: RSA Laboratories
• ECDSA: Certicom Corp
• SFLASH: Schlumberger Corp (SFLASH was broken in 2007 and should not be used anymore).

Asymmetric Identification Schemes

• GPS-auth: Ecole Normale Supérieure, France Télécom, and La Poste