Advanced Methods in Cryptanalysis

Cryptology (i.e., secret- or code-writing) is an important aspect of modern day life and economy. Roughly speaking, cryptology can be viewed as being composed of two parts: cryptography, which deals with the design of crypto algorithms, and cryptanalysis (sometimes called code-breaking), which deals with the security assessment of these algorithms. As a civilian field, progress in cryptanalysis has always been tied to advances in cryptography.
This proposal aims to build cryptanalysis as a separate field from cryptography by identifying the qualities that make an algorithm insecure. Capturing the essence of "insecurity" allows to develop new attack methods thus improve both existing landscape (by removing insecure algorithms from the public domain) and future designs.