Lightweight Cryptography

Finalists

The following table lists the ten Finalists of the lightweight crypto standardization process.

Official comments on the Finalists should be submitted using the "Submit Comment" link for the appropriate algorithm. Comments from the lwc-forum Google group subscribers will also be forwarded to the lwc-forum Google group list. We will periodically post and update the comments received to the appropriate algorithm.

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History of Finalist Updates

Candidate	Algorithm Information	Submitters	Comments
ASCON	Zip File (2MB) Specification Changelog Website	Christoph Dobraunig Maria Eichlseder Florian Mendel Martin Schläffer	Submit Comment View Comments
Elephant	Zip File (<1MB) Specification Changelog Website	Tim Beyne Yu Long Chen Christoph Dobraunig Bart Mennink	Submit Comment View Comments
GIFT-COFB	Zip File (<1MB) Specification Website	Subhadeep Banik Avik Chakraborti Tetsu Iwata Kazuhiko Minematsu Mridul Nandi Thomas Peyrin Yu Sasaki Siang Meng Sim Yosuke Todo	Submit Comment View Comments
Grain-128AEAD	Zip File (1MB) Specification Changelog IP Statements (update) Website	Martin Hell Thomas Johansson Willi Meier Jonathan Sönnerup Hirotaka Yoshida Alexander Maximov	Submit Comment View Comments
ISAP	Zip File (1MB) Specification Changelog Website	Christoph Dobraunig Maria Eichlseder Stefan Mangard Florian Mendel Bart Mennink Robert Primas Thomas Unterluggauer	Submit Comment View Comments
PHOTON-Beetle	Zip File (6MB) Specification Website	Zhenzhen Bao Avik Chakraborti Nilanjan Datta Jian Guo Mridul Nandi Thomas Peyrin Kan Yasuda	Submit Comment View Comments Round 2 Comments
Romulus	Zip File (2MB) Specification IP Statements (update) Website	Tetsu Iwata Mustafa Khairallah Kazuhiko Minematsu Thomas Peyrin Chun Guo	Submit Comment View Comments
SPARKLE (SCHWAEMM and ESCH)	Zip File (2MB) Specification IP Statements (update) Website	Christof Beierle Alex Biryukov Luan Cardoso dos Santos Johann Großschädl Léo Perrin Aleksei Udovenko Vesselin Velichkov Qingju Wang Amir Moradi Aein Rezaei Shahmirzadi	Submit Comment View Comments Round 1 Comments
TinyJambu	Zip File (<1MB) Specification Changelog Website	Hongjun Wu Tao Huang	Submit Comment View Comments
Xoodyak	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements (update) Website	Joan Daemen Seth Hoffert Michaël Peeters Gilles Van Assche Ronny Van Keer Silvia Mella	Submit Comment View Comments

Project Links

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Additional Pages

Round 1 Round 2 Finalists Related Publications Performance Benchmarking Workshops Timeline Email List (lwc-forum)

Contacts

Lightweight Crypto Technical Inquiries
lightweight-crypto@nist.gov

Lawrence Bassham

Donghoon Chang

Deukjo Hong

Jinkeon Kang

John Kelsey

Kerry McKay

Meltem Sönmez Turan

Noah Waller

Group

Cryptographic Technology

Topics

Security and Privacy: cryptography

Related Projects

Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines
Masked Circuits for Block-Ciphers
Multi-Party Threshold Cryptography