Ascon is New NIST Standard for Lightweight Crypto
The US National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has selected Ascon as new standard for lightweight cryptography. This concludes the NIST Lightweight Crypto (LWC) project, a 4-year competition with the goal of standardizing a lightweight authenticated encryption algorithm suitable for constrained environments. Ascon was developed in 2014 at IAIK, TU Graz by Christoph Dobraunig […]