The eSTREAM Project.- CryptMT3 Stream Cipher.- The Dragon Stream Cipher: Design, Analysis, and Implementation Issues.- The Stream Cipher HC-128.- Design of a New Stream Cipher-LEX.- Specification for NLSv2.- The Rabbit Stream Cipher.- The Salsa20 Family of Stream Ciphers.- Sosemanuk, a Fast Software-Oriented Stream Cipher.- eSTREAM Software Performance.- Decim v2.- The Stream Cipher Edon80.- F-FCSR Stream Ciphers.- The Grain Family of Stream Ciphers.- The MICKEY Stream Ciphers.- The Self-synchronizing Stream Cipher Moustique.- Cascade Jump Controlled Sequence Generator and Pomaranch Stream Cipher.- Trivium.- ASIC Hardware Performance.

This state-of-the-art survey presents the outcome of the eSTREAM Project, which was launched in 2004 as part of ECRYPT, the European Network of Excellence in Cryptology (EU Framework VI). The goal of eSTREAM was to promote the design of new stream ciphers with a particular emphasis on algorithms that would be either very fast in software or very resource-efficient in hardware. Algorithm designers were invited to submit new stream cipher proposals to eSTREAM, and 34 candidates were proposed from around the world. Over the following years the submissions were assessed with regard to both security and practicality by the cryptographic community, and the results were presented at major conferences and specialized workshops dedicated to the state of the art of stream ciphers. This volume describes the most successful of the submitted designs and, over 16 chapters, provides full specifications of the ciphers that reached the final phase of the eSTREAM project. The book is rounded off by two implementation surveys covering both the software- and the hardware-oriented finalists.