This directory contains 12 files, each containing one or more chapters of the Doctoral dissertation of Joan Daemen, ``Cipher and Hash Function Design, Strategies based on linear and differential cryptanalysis.''

abstract, table of contents, chapter 1 (introduction), chapter 12 (conclusions), references

chapter2 (encryption, ciphers and hash functions)

chapter4 (design strategies)

chapter5 (propagation and correlation)

chapter6 (shift-invariant transformations)

chapter7 (block cipher design)

chapter8 (design of stream/hash modules)

chapter9 (design of self-synchronysing stream ciphers)

chapter10 (supporting cryptanalytic results)

chapter11 (schemes based on modular arithmetic)

appendix (on shift invariant transformations)

These files are currently maintained by vincent.rijmen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be,