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Lightweight Cryptography

Past Events

Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2023
June 21, 2023 - June 22, 2023
NIST hosted the Sixth Lightweight Cryptography Workshop (virtual) on June 21-22, 2023 to explain the selection process and to discuss various aspects of lightweight cryptography standardization. Agenda Call for Papers...
Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2022
May 9, 2022 - May 11, 2022
NIST hosted the fifth Lightweight Cryptography Workshop (virtual) on May 9-11, 2022, to discuss various aspects of the finalists and to obtain valuable feedback for the standardization of lightweight cryptographic primitives....
Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2020
October 19, 2020 - October 21, 2020
NIST hosted the fourth Lightweight Cryptography Workshop (virtual) on October 19-21, 2020, to discuss various aspects of the second-round candidates and to obtain valuable feedback for the selection of the finalists.  Call...
Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2019
November 4, 2019 - November 6, 2019
NIST hosted the third Lightweight Cryptography Workshop on November 4-6, 2019  to discuss candidate algorithms, including design strategies, implementations, performance, cryptanalysis, and target applications and to obtain...
Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2016
October 17, 2016 - October 18, 2016
NIST hosted the second Lightweight Cryptography Workshop on October 17-18, 2016.  In 2013, NIST initiated the lightweight cryptography project to study the performance of the current NIST-approved cryptographic standards on...
Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2015
July 20, 2015 - July 21, 2015
NIST hosted the first Lightweight Cryptography Workshop on July 20-21, 2015.  There are several emerging areas in which highly constrained devices are interconnected, typically communicating wirelessly with one another,...

Contacts

Lightweight Crypto Technical Inquiries
lightweight-crypto@nist.gov

Lawrence Bassham

Donghoon Chang

Jinkeon Kang

John Kelsey

Kerry McKay

Meltem Sönmez Turan

Noah Waller

Topics

Security and Privacy: lightweight cryptography

Created January 03, 2017, Updated November 22, 2023