The QARMA Block Cipher Family. Almost MDS Matrices Over Rings With Zero Divisors, Nearly Symmetric Even-Mansour Constructions With Non-Involutory Central Rounds, and Search Heuristics for Low-Latency S-Boxes - Roberto Avanzi (IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2017)
Keywords: Almost MDS Matrices; Even-Mansour Schemes; Memory Encryption; Pointer Authentication; Reflection Ciphers; S-Box Search Heuristics; Short Hashes; Tweak Extension; Tweak Masking; Tweakable Block Ciphers