You are holding the proceedings of FSE 2011, the 18th International Workshop
on Fast Software Encryption. This workshop was organized in cooperation with
the International Association for Cryptologic Research. It was held in Lyngby,
Denmark, during February 13–16, 2011.
The FSE 2011 Program Committee (PC) consisted of 21 members, listed on
the next page. There were 106 submissions and 22 were selected to appear in
this volume. Each submission was assigned to at least three PC members and reviewed
anonymously. During the review process, the PC members were assisted
by 66 external reviewers. Once the reviews were available, the committee discussed
the papers in depth using the EasyChair conference management system.
At the workshop, papers were made available to the audience in electronic form.
After the conference, the authors of accepted papers were given six weeks to prepare
the final versions included in these proceedings. The revised papers were
not reviewed again and their authors bear the responsibility for their content.
In addition to the papers included in this volume, the conference also featured
a Rump Session. Vincent Rijmen served as the chair of the Rump Session. The
conference also had the pleasure of hearing invited talks by Willy Meier and
Ivan Damg?ard. An invited paper corresponding to Willy Meier’s talk is included
in the proceedings. Ivan Damg?ard considered that the material presented in his
talk was already published and thus did not wish to send an invited paper.
The PC decided to give the Best Paper Award to Takanori Isobe for his paper
titled “A Single-Key Attack on the Full GOST Block Cipher.” In addition,
the committee selected another paper for invitation to the Journal of Cryptology:
“Cryptanalysis of PRESENT-Like Ciphers with Secret S-Boxes” by Julia
Borghoff, Lars Ramkilde Knudsen, Gregor Leander and Søren Thomsen.
I wish to thank all the people who contributed to this conference. First,
all the authors who submitted their work. Second the PC members and their
external reviewers for the thorough job they did while reading and commenting
the submissions. Without them, selecting the papers for this conference would
have been an impossible task. I thank Andrei Voronkov for his review system
EasyChair. Once again, I was very glad to have access to his magic tools that
helped me assemble this volume. I would also like to thank the General Chairs,
Lars Knudsen and Gregor Leander for making this conference possible.
Being the Program Chair for FSE 2011 was a great honor and I may only
hope that the readers of these proceedings find them as interesting as I found
the task of selecting their content.