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Round 2 Candidates

The following table lists the Round 2 Candidates of the lightweight crypto standardization process.

The success of the NIST Lightweight Crypto Standardization process relies on the efforts of the researchers from the cryptographic community that provide security, implementation and performance analysis of the candidate algorithms. NIST strongly encourages public evaluation and publication of the results throughout the process.

Official comments on the Round 2 Candidates 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.

All relevant comments will be posted in their entirety and should not include PII information in the body of the email message.

Please refrain from using OFFICIAL COMMENT to ask administrative questions, which should be sent to lightweight-crypto@nist.gov

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History of Round 2 Updates Download all Round 2 Zip Files (96 MB) 

 

Candidate Algorithm Information Submitters Comments
ACE

Zip File (2MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Mark Aagaard
Riham AlTawy
Guang Gong
Kalikinkar Mandal
Raghvendra Rohit

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ASCON

Zip File (2MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Christoph Dobraunig
Maria Eichlseder
Florian Mendel
Martin Schläffer

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COMET

Zip File (<1MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Shay Gueron
Ashwin Jha
Mridul Nandi

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Round 1 Comments
DryGASCON

Zip File  (11MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Sébastien Riou

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Elephant

Zip File (6MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Tim Beyne
Yu Long Chen
Christoph Dobraunig
Bart Mennink

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ESTATE

Zip File (1MB)
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Avik Chakraborti
Nilanjan Datta
Ashwin Jha
Cuauhtemoc Mancillas Lopez
Mridul Nandi
Yu Sasaki

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ForkAE

Zip File  (<1MB)
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Elena Andreeva
Virginie Lallemand
Antoon Purnal
Reza Reyhanitabar
Arnab Roy
Damian Vizár

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GIFT-COFB

Zip File  (<1MB)
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Subhadeep Banik
Avik Chakraborti
Tetsu Iwata
Kazuhiko Minematsu
Mridul Nandi
Thomas Peyrin
Yu Sasaki
Siang Meng Sim
Yosuke Todo

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Gimli

Zip File  (2MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Daniel J. Bernstein
Stefan Kölbl
Stefan Lucks
Pedro Maat Costa Massolino
Florian Mendel
Kashif Nawaz
Tobias Schneider
Peter Schwabe
François-Xavier Standaert
Yosuke Todo
Benoit Viguier 

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Grain-128AEAD

Zip File  (<1MB)
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Martin Hell
Thomas Johansson
Willi Meier
Jonathan Sönnerup
Hirotaka Yoshida

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HyENA

Zip File  (<1MB)
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Avik Chakraborti
Nilanjan Datta
Ashwin Jha
Mridul Nandi

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Round 1 Comments
ISAP

Zip File (5MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Christoph Dobraunig
Maria Eichlseder
Stefan Mangard
Florian Mendel
Bart Mennink
Robert Primas
Thomas Unterluggauer

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KNOT

Zip File (16MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Wentao Zhang
Tianyou Ding
Bohan Yang
Zhenzhen Bao
Zejun Xiang
Fulei Ji
Xuefeng Zhao

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Round 1 Comments
LOTUS-AEAD and LOCUS-AEAD

Zip File (1MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Avik Chakraborti
Nilanjan Datta
Ashwin Jha
Cuauhtemoc Mancilias Lopez
Mridul Nandi
Yu Sasaki

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Round 1 Comments
mixFeed

Zip File (<1MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Bishwajit Chakraborty
Mridul Nandi

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Round 1 Comments
ORANGE

Zip File (2MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Bishwajit Chakraborty
Mridul Nandi

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Round 1 Comments
Oribatida

Zip File  (1MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Arghya Bhattacharjee
Eik List
Cuauhtemoc Mancillas López
Mridul Nandi

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PHOTON-Beetle

Zip File (<1MB)
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Zhenzhen Bao
Avik Chakraborti
Nilanjan Datta
Jian Guo
Mridul Nandi
Thomas Peyrin
Kan Yasuda

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Pyjamask

Zip File  (<1MB)
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Dahmun Goudarzi
Jérémy Jean
Stefan Kölbl
Thomas Peyrin
Matthieu Rivain
Yu Sasaki
Siang Meng Sim

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Round 1 Comments
Romulus

Zip File (3MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Tetsu Iwata
Mustafa Khairallah
Kazuhiko Minematsu
Thomas Peyrin

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SAEAES

Zip File (<1MB) 
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Yusuke Naito
Mitsuru Matsui
Yasuyuki Sakai
Daisuke Suzuki
Kazuo Sakiyama
Takeshi Sugawara

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Saturnin

Zip File (4MB) 
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Anne Canteaut
Sébastien Duval
Gaëtan Leurent
María Naya-Plasencia
Léo Perrin
Thomas Pornin
André Schrottenloher

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SKINNY-AEAD/SKINNY-HASH

Zip File  (14MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Christof Beierle
Jérémy Jean
Stefan Kölbl
Gregor Leander
Amir Moradi
Thomas Peyrin
Yu Sasaki
Pascal Sasdrich
Siang Meng Sim

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SPARKLE (SCHWAEMM and ESCH)

Zip File  (5MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Christof Beierle
Alex Biryukov
Luan Cardoso dos Santos
Johann Großschädl
Léo Perrin
Aleksei Udovenko
Vesselin Velichkov
Qingju Wang

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Round 1 Comments
SPIX

Zip File  (3MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Riham AlTawy
Guang Gong
Morgan He
Kalikinkar Mandal
Raghvendra Rohit

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Round 1 Comments
SpoC

Zip File (1MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

Riham AlTawy
Guang Gong
Morgan He
Ashwin Jha
Kalikinkar Mandal
Mridul Nandi
Raghvendra Rohit

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Spook

Zip File (2MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Davide Bellizia
Francesco Berti
Olivier Bronchain
Gaétan Cassiers
Sébastien Duval
Chun Guo
Gregor Leander
Gaétan Leurent
Itamar Levi
Charles Momin
Olivier Pereira
Thomas Peters
François-Xavier Standaert
Friedrich Wiemer

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Subterranean 2.0

Zip File  (1MB)
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Joan Daemen
Pedro Maat Costa Massolino
Yann Rotella

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Round 1 Comments
SUNDAE-GIFT

Zip File  (1<MB)
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Subhadeep Banik
Andrey Bogdanov
Thomas Peyrin
Yu Sasaki
Siang Meng Sim
Elmar Tischhauser
Yosuke Todo

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Round 1 Comments
TinyJambu

Zip File  (1MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Hongjun Wu
Tao Huang

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WAGE

Zip File  (4MB)
Specification
Changelog
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Mark Aagaard
Riham AlTawy
Guang Gong
Kalikinkar Mandal
Raghvendra Rohit
Nusa Zidaric

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Round 1 Comments
Xoodyak

Zip File (<1MB)
Specification
Algorithm Update (Sep 2020)

Website

 Joan Daemen
Seth Hoffert
Michaël Peeters
Gilles Van Assche
Ronny Van Keer

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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

Topics

Security and Privacy: cryptography

Created January 03, 2017, Updated November 02, 2021