Symmetric Cryptography 1 Executive Summary

From January 10–15, 2016, the seminar 16021 in Symmetric Cryptography was held in Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics. It was the fifth in the series of the Dagstuhl seminars “Symmetric Cryptography” held in 2007, 2009, 2012, and 2014. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations were given during the seminar. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Seminar January 10–15, 2016 – http://www.dagstuhl.de/16021 1998 ACM Subject Classification E.3 Data Encryption, H.2.0 General – Security, Integrity, and Protection, K.6.5 Security and Protection