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Projects Lightweight Cryptography

Lightweight Cryptography

Performance Benchmarking

In January 2022, the George Mason University Cryptographic Engineering Research Group (CERG) team published three calls to assist in evaluating protected implementations of the finalists:

The NIST team encourages submitters and third parties to contribute to this initiative. 

Performance benchmarking results are provided in the following pages:

Contacts

Lightweight Crypto Technical Inquiries
lightweight-crypto@nist.gov

Donghoon Chang

Jinkeon Kang

John Kelsey

Kerry McKay

Meltem Sönmez Turan

Noah Waller

Topics

Security and Privacy: lightweight cryptography

Created January 03, 2017, Updated March 20, 2024