"A Fresh Approach to New and Secure Encryption"

As digitalization advances, the amount of data that must be protected increases exponentially, which calls for sophisticated cryptographic methods that are both fast and efficient in practice as well as completely secure. The "SymTrust" research project led by professor Gregor Leander from the Faculty of Computer Science and the Horst Gortz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, aims to tackle this challenge. In order to execute his ideas, the symmetric cryptography researcher plans to take a different approach to the development of ciphers, also known as encryption algorithms. Currently, the design process is based on trial and error. The cipher is designed, put into the technical environment with efficiency in mind, and then an attempt is made to break it. If the attack is successful, the cipher is readjusted, and the process is repeated. He and his team must conduct comprehensive research on existing ciphers and analyze the conditions of cryptanalysis, which is the science of breaking ciphers. The resulting findings will be used for a new idea for symmetric cryptography aimed at setting new standards in information encryption for both industry and academia. This article continues to discuss the SymTrust research project. 

Ruhr University Bochum reports "A Fresh Approach to New and Secure Encryption"