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In March 2019, NIST received 57 submissions to be considered for standardization. The first round of the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process began with the announcement of 56 Round 1 Candidates in April 2019 and ended in August 2019.
The status report on the first round is available here.
The following table lists the Round 1 Candidates:
History of Updates Download all Zip Files (53 MB) does not include IP Statements
| Candidate | Algorithm Information | Submitters | Comments |
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| ACE |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Mark Aagaard Riham AlTawy Guang Gong Kalikinkar Mandal Raghvendra Rohit |
Submit Comment |
| ASCON |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Christoph Dobraunig Maria Eichlseder Florian Mendel Martin Schläffer |
Submit Comment |
| Bleep64 |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Kevin R. Driscoll | |
| CiliPadi |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Muhammad Reza Z’aba Norziana Jamil Mohd Saufy Rohmad Hazlin Abdul Rani Solahuddin Shamsuddin |
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| CLAE |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Dongxi Liu Surya Nepal Josef Pieprzyk Willy Susilo |
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| CLX |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Hongjun Wu Tao Huang |
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| COMET |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Shay Gueron Ashwin Jha Mridul Nandi |
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| DryGASCON | Sébastien Riou |
Submit Comment |
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| Elephant |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Tim Beyne Yu Long Chen Christoph Dobraunig Bart Mennink |
Submit Comment |
| ESTATE | Avik Chakraborti Nilanjan Datta Ashwin Jha Cuauhtemoc Mancillas Lopez Mridul Nandi Yu Sasaki |
Submit Comment |
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| FlexAEAD |
Zip File (2MB) Website |
Eduardo Marsola do Nascimento José Antônio Moreira Xexéo |
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| ForkAE |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Elena Andreeva Virginie Lallemand Antoon Purnal Reza Reyhanitabar Arnab Roy Damian Vizár |
Submit Comment |
| Fountain |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Bin Zhang | |
| GAGE and InGAGE | Danilo Gligoroski Hristina Mihajloska Daniel Otte |
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| GIFT-COFB |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Subhadeep Banik Avik Chakraborti Tetsu Iwata Kazuhiko Minematsu Mridul Nandi Thomas Peyrin Yu Sasaki Siang Meng Sim Yosuke Todo |
Submit Comment |
| Gimli |
Zip File (<1MB) 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 |
| Grain-128AEAD |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Martin Hell Thomas Johansson Willi Meier Jonathan Sönnerup Hirotaka Yoshida |
Submit Comment |
| HERN & HERON |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Dingfeng Ye Danping Shi Yuan Ma Peng Wang |
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| HYENA |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Avik Chakraborti Nilanjan Datta Ashwin Jha Mridul Nandi |
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| ISAP |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Christoph Dobraunig Maria Eichlseder Stefan Mangard Florian Mendel Bart Mennink Robert Primas Thomas Unterluggauer |
Submit Comment |
| KNOT |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Wentao Zhang Tianyou Ding Bohan Yang Zhenzhen Bao Zejun Xiang Fulei Ji Xuefeng Zhao |
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| LAEM |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Han Sui Wenling Wu Lei Zhang Danxia Zhang |
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| Lilliput-AE | Alexandre Adomnicai Thierry P. Berger Christophe Clavier Julien Francq Paul Huynh Virginie Lallemand Kévin Le Gouguec Marine Minier Léo Reynaud Gëel Thomas |
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| Limdolen |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Carl E. Mehner | |
| LOTUS-AEAD and LOCUS-AEAD |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Avik Chakraborti Nilanjan Datta Ashwin Jha Cuauhtemoc Mancilias Lopez Mridul Nandi Yu Sasaki |
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| mixFeed |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Bishwajit Chakraborty Mridul Nandi |
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| ORANGE |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Bishwajit Chakraborty Mridul Nandi |
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| Oribatida |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Arghya Bhattacharjee Eik List Cuauhtemoc Mancillas López Mridul Nandi |
Submit Comment |
| PHOTON-Beetle |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Zhenzhen Bao Avik Chakraborti Nilanjan Datta Jian Guo Mridul Nandi Thomas Peyrin Kan Yasuda |
Submit Comment |
| Pyjamask |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Dahmun Goudarzi Jérémy Jean Stefan Kölbl Thomas Peyrin Matthieu Rivain Yu Sasaki Siang Meng Sim |
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| Qameleon |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Roberto Avanzi Subhadeep Banik Andrey Bogdanov Orr Dunkelman Senyang Huang Francesco Regazzoni |
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| Quartet |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Bin Zhang | |
| REMUS | Tetsu Iwata Mustafa Khairallah Kazuhiko Minematsu Thomas Peyrin |
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| Romulus | Tetsu Iwata Mustafa Khairallah Kazuhiko Minematsu Thomas Peyrin |
Submit Comment |
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| SAEAES |
Zip File (<1MB) |
Yusuke Naito Mitsuru Matsui Yasuyuki Sakai Daisuke Suzuki Kazuo Sakiyama Takeshi Sugawara |
Submit Comment |
| Saturnin | Anne Canteaut Sébastien Duval Gaëtan Leurent María Naya-Plasencia Léo Perrin Thomas Pornin André Schrottenloher |
Submit Comment |
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| Shamash & Shamashash |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Daniel Penazzi Miguel Montes |
Submit Comment |
| SIMPLE |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Shay Gueron Yehuda Lindell |
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| SIV-Rijndael256 |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Zhenzhen Bao Jian Guo Tetsu Iwata Ling Song |
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| SIV-TEM-PHOTON |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Zhenzhen Bao Jian Guo Tetsu Iwata Ling Song |
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| SKINNY-AEAD/SKINNY-HASH | Christof Beierle Jérémy Jean Stefan Kölbl Gregor Leander Amir Moradi Thomas Peyrin Yu Sasaki Pascal Sasdrich Siang Meng Sim |
Submit Comment |
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| SNEIK |
Zip File (1MB) Website |
Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen | |
| SPARKLE (SCHWAEMM and ESCH) | Christof Beierle Alex Biryukov Luan Cardoso dos Santos Johann Großschädl Léo Perrin Aleksei Udovenko Vesselin Velichkov Qingju Wang |
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| SPIX |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Riham AlTawy Guang Gong Morgan He Kalikinkar Mandal Raghvendra Rohit |
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| SpoC |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Riham AlTawy |
Submit Comment |
| Spook |
Zip File (<1MB) 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 |
| Subterranean 2.0 |
Zip File (1MB) Website |
Joan Daemen Pedro Maat Costa Massolino Yann Rotella |
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| SUNDAE-GIFT |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Subhadeep Banik Andrey Bogdanov Thomas Peyrin Yu Sasaki Siang Meng Sim Elmar Tischhauser Yosuke Todo |
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| Sycon |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Sumanta Sarkar Kalikinkar Mandal Dhiman Saha |
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| Thank Goodness It’s Friday (TGIF) | Tetsu Iwata Mustafa Khairallah Kazuhiko Minematsu Thomas Peyrin Yu Sasaki Siang Meng Sim Ling Sun |
Submit Comment |
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| TinyJambu |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Hongjun Wu Tao Huang |
Submit Comment |
| Triad |
Zip File (3MB) Website |
Subhadeep Banik Takanori Isobe Willi Meier Yosuke Todo Bin Zhang |
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| TRIFLE |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Nilanjan Datta Ashrujit Ghoshal Debdeep Mukhopadhyay Sikhar Patranabis Stjepan Picek Rajat Sadhukhan |
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| WAGE |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Mark Aagaard Riham AlTawy Guang Gong Kalikinkar Mandal Raghvendra Rohit Nusa Zidaric |
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| Xoodyak |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Joan Daemen Seth Hoffert Michaël Peeters Gilles Van Assche Ronny Van Keer |
Submit Comment |
| Yarará and Coral |
Zip File (<1MB) Website |
Miguel Montes Daniel Penazzi |
Submit Comment |
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