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NIST IR 8114 (Initial Public Draft)

Report on Lightweight Cryptography

Date Published: August 2016
Comments Due: October 31, 2016 (public comment period is CLOSED)
Email Questions to: lightweight-crypto@nist.gov

Author(s)

Kerry McKay (NIST), Lawrence Bassham (NIST), Meltem Sönmez Turan (NIST), Nicky Mouha (NIST)

Announcement

NIST-approved cryptographic standards were designed to perform well using general-purpose computers. In recent years, there has been increased deployment of small computing devices that have limited resources with which to implement cryptography. When current NIST-approved algorithms can be engineered to fit into the limited resources of constrained environments, their performance may not be acceptable. For these reasons, NIST started a lightweight cryptography project that was tasked with learning more about the issues and developing a strategy for the standardization of lightweight cryptographic algorithms. This report provides an overview of the lightweight cryptography project at NIST, and describes plans for the standardization of lightweight cryptographic algorithms.

Abstract

Keywords

constrained devices; lightweight cryptography;  ; standardization
Control Families

System and Communications Protection; System and Information Integrity

Documentation

Publication:
Draft NISTIR 8114 (pdf)

Supplemental Material:
Comments received on Draft (Aug. 2016) (pdf)

Document History:
08/11/16: IR 8114 (Draft)
03/28/17: IR 8114 (Final)

Topics

Security and Privacy

lightweight cryptography