CAESAR: Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness Timeline M-20, 2012.07.05–06: DIAC: Directions in Authenticated Ciphers. Stockholm.

M-14, 2013.01.15: Competition announced at the Early Symmetric Crypto workshop in Mondorf-les-Bains; also announced online.

M-7, 2013.08.11–13: DIAC 2013: Directions in Authenticated Ciphers 2013. Chicago.

M0, 2014.03.15: Deadline for first-round submissions.

M2, 2014.05.15: Deadline for first-round software.

M5, 2014.08.23–24: DIAC 2014: Directions in Authenticated Ciphers 2014. Santa Barbara.

M16, 2015.07.07: Announcement of second-round candidates.

M17, 2015.08.29: Deadline for second-round tweaks.

M18, 2015.09.15: Deadline for second-round software.

M18, 2015.09.28–29: DIAC 2015: Directions in Authenticated Ciphers 2015. Singapore.

M27, 2016.06.30: Deadline for Verilog/VHDL.

M29, 2016.08.15: Announcement of third-round candidates.

M30, 2016.09.15: Deadline for third-round tweaks.

M30, 2016.09.26–27: DIAC 2016. Nagoya, Japan.

M31, 2016.10.15: Deadline for third-round software.

M40, 2017.07.15: Deadline for third-round Verilog/VHDL.

M40, 2017.07.15: Deadline for optimized third-round software.

M48, 2018.03.05: Announcement of finalists.

M59: 2019.02.20: Announcement of final portfolio. Version: This is version 2019.02.20 of the caesar.html web page.