Lightweight Cryptography

Round 1 Candidates

The following table lists the Round 1 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.

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History of Updates Download all Zip Files (53 MB) does not include IP Statements

Candidate	Algorithm Information	Submitters	Comments
ACE	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Mark Aagaard Riham AlTawy Guang Gong Kalikinkar Mandal Raghvendra Rohit	Submit Comment View Comments
ASCON	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Christoph Dobraunig Maria Eichlseder Florian Mendel Martin Schläffer	Submit Comment View Comments
Bleep64	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Kevin R. Driscoll	Submit Comment View Comments
CiliPadi	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Muhammad Reza Z’aba Norziana Jamil Mohd Saufy Rohmad Hazlin Abdul Rani Solahuddin Shamsuddin	Submit Comment View Comments
CLAE	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Dongxi Liu Surya Nepal Josef Pieprzyk Willy Susilo	Submit Comment View Comments
CLX	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Hongjun Wu Tao Huang	Submit Comment View Comments
COMET	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Shay Gueron Ashwin Jha Mridul Nandi	Submit Comment View Comments
DryGASCON	Zip File (3MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Sébastien Riou	Submit Comment View Comments
Elephant	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Tim Beyne Yu Long Chen Christoph Dobraunig Bart Mennink	Submit Comment View Comments
ESTATE	Zip File (2MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Avik Chakraborti Nilanjan Datta Ashwin Jha Cuauhtemoc Mancillas Lopez Mridul Nandi Yu Sasaki	Submit Comment View Comments
FlexAEAD	Zip File (2MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Eduardo Marsola do Nascimento José Antônio Moreira Xexéo	Submit Comment View Comments
ForkAE	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Elena Andreeva Virginie Lallemand Antoon Purnal Reza Reyhanitabar Arnab Roy Damian Vizár	Submit Comment View Comments
Fountain	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Bin Zhang	Submit Comment View Comments
GAGE and InGAGE	Zip File (4MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Danilo Gligoroski Hristina Mihajloska Daniel Otte	Submit Comment View Comments
GIFT-COFB	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Subhadeep Banik Avik Chakraborti Tetsu Iwata Kazuhiko Minematsu Mridul Nandi Thomas Peyrin Yu Sasaki Siang Meng Sim Yosuke Todo	Submit Comment View Comments
Gimli	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements 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	Submit Comment View Comments
Grain-128AEAD	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Martin Hell Thomas Johansson Willi Meier Jonathan Sönnerup Hirotaka Yoshida	Submit Comment View Comments
HERN & HERON	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Dingfeng Ye Danping Shi Yuan Ma Peng Wang	Submit Comment View Comments
HYENA	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Avik Chakraborti Nilanjan Datta Ashwin Jha Mridul Nandi	Submit Comment View Comments
ISAP	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Christoph Dobraunig Maria Eichlseder Stefan Mangard Florian Mendel Bart Mennink Robert Primas Thomas Unterluggauer	Submit Comment View Comments
KNOT	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Wentao Zhang Tianyou Ding Bohan Yang Zhenzhen Bao Zejun Xiang Fulei Ji Xuefeng Zhao	Submit Comment View Comments
LAEM	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Han Sui Wenling Wu Lei Zhang Danxia Zhang	Submit Comment View Comments
Lilliput-AE	Zip File (2MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Alexandre Adomnicai Thierry P. Berger Christophe Clavier Julien Francq Paul Huynh Virginie Lallemand Kévin Le Gouguec Marine Minier Léo Reynaud Gëel Thomas	Submit Comment View Comments
Limdolen	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Carl E. Mehner	Submit Comment View Comments
LOTUS-AEAD and LOCUS-AEAD	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Avik Chakraborti Nilanjan Datta Ashwin Jha Cuauhtemoc Mancilias Lopez Mridul Nandi Yu Sasaki	Submit Comment View Comments
mixFeed	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Bishwajit Chakraborty Mridul Nandi	Submit Comment View Comments
ORANGE	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Bishwajit Chakraborty Mridul Nandi	Submit Comment View Comments
Oribatida	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Arghya Bhattacharjee Eik List Cuauhtemoc Mancillas López Mridul Nandi	Submit Comment View Comments
PHOTON-Beetle	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Zhenzhen Bao Avik Chakraborti Nilanjan Datta Jian Guo Mridul Nandi Thomas Peyrin Kan Yasuda	Submit Comment View Comments
Pyjamask	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Dahmun Goudarzi Jérémy Jean Stefan Kölbl Thomas Peyrin Matthieu Rivain Yu Sasaki Siang Meng Sim	Submit Comment View Comments
Qameleon	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Roberto Avanzi Subhadeep Banik Andrey Bogdanov Orr Dunkelman Senyang Huang Francesco Regazzoni	Submit Comment View Comments
Quartet	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Bin Zhang	Submit Comment View Comments
REMUS	Zip File (1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Tetsu Iwata Mustafa Khairallah Kazuhiko Minematsu Thomas Peyrin	Submit Comment View Comments
Romulus	Zip File (1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Tetsu Iwata Mustafa Khairallah Kazuhiko Minematsu Thomas Peyrin	Submit Comment View Comments
SAEAES	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Yusuke Naito Mitsuru Matsui Yasuyuki Sakai Daisuke Suzuki Kazuo Sakiyama Takeshi Sugawara	Submit Comment View Comments
Saturnin	Zip File (2MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Anne Canteaut Sébastien Duval Gaëtan Leurent María Naya-Plasencia Léo Perrin Thomas Pornin André Schrottenloher	Submit Comment View Comments
Shamash & Shamashash	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Daniel Penazzi Miguel Montes	Submit Comment View Comments
SIMPLE	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Shay Gueron Yehuda Lindell	Submit Comment View Comments
SIV-Rijndael256	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Zhenzhen Bao Jian Guo Tetsu Iwata Ling Song	Submit Comment View Comments
SIV-TEM-PHOTON	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Zhenzhen Bao Jian Guo Tetsu Iwata Ling Song	Submit Comment View Comments
SKINNY-AEAD/SKINNY-HASH	Zip File (1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Christof Beierle Jérémy Jean Stefan Kölbl Gregor Leander Amir Moradi Thomas Peyrin Yu Sasaki Pascal Sasdrich Siang Meng Sim	Submit Comment View Comments
SNEIK	Zip File (1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen	Submit Comment View Comments
SPARKLE (SCHWAEMM and ESCH)	Zip File (1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Christof Beierle Alex Biryukov Luan Cardoso dos Santos Johann Großschädl Léo Perrin Aleksei Udovenko Vesselin Velichkov Qingju Wang	Submit Comment View Comments
SPIX	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Riham AlTawy Guang Gong Morgan He Kalikinkar Mandal Raghvendra Rohit	Submit Comment View Comments
SpoC	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Riham AlTawy Guang Gong Morgan He Ashwin Jha Kalikinkar Mandal Mridul Nandi Raghvendra Rohit	Submit Comment View Comments
Spook	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements 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	Submit Comment View Comments
Subterranean 2.0	Zip File (1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Joan Daemen Pedro Maat Costa Massolino Yann Rotella	Submit Comment View Comments
SUNDAE-GIFT	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Subhadeep Banik Andrey Bogdanov Thomas Peyrin Yu Sasaki Siang Meng Sim Elmar Tischhauser Yosuke Todo	Submit Comment View Comments
Sycon	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Sumanta Sarkar Kalikinkar Mandal Dhiman Saha	Submit Comment View Comments
Thank Goodness It’s Friday (TGIF)	Zip File (1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Tetsu Iwata Mustafa Khairallah Kazuhiko Minematsu Thomas Peyrin Yu Sasaki Siang Meng Sim Ling Sun	Submit Comment View Comments
TinyJambu	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Hongjun Wu Tao Huang	Submit Comment View Comments
Triad	Zip File (3MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Subhadeep Banik Takanori Isobe Willi Meier Yosuke Todo Bin Zhang	Submit Comment View Comments
TRIFLE	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Nilanjan Datta Ashrujit Ghoshal Debdeep Mukhopadhyay Sikhar Patranabis Stjepan Picek Rajat Sadhukhan	Submit Comment View Comments
WAGE	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Mark Aagaard Riham AlTawy Guang Gong Kalikinkar Mandal Raghvendra Rohit Nusa Zidaric	Submit Comment View Comments
Xoodyak	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Joan Daemen Seth Hoffert Michaël Peeters Gilles Van Assche Ronny Van Keer	Submit Comment View Comments
Yarará and Coral	Zip File (<1MB) Specification IP Statements Website	Miguel Montes Daniel Penazzi	Submit Comment View Comments

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