Symmetric Cryptography (Dagstuhl Seminar 16021)

From 10.01.2016 to 15.01.2016, 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.