Date Published: April 26, 2017
Comments Due: June 16, 2017 (public comment period is CLOSED)
Email Questions to:
lightweight-crypto@nist.gov
Planning Note (08/27/2018):
The Draft Whitepaper and the public comments received provided the foundation for the submission requirements of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography project. These requirements were published in a call for algorithms on August 27, 2018.
[Updated 6/27/17: Public comments on Profiles I and II are available below.]
NIST announces the draft whitepaper, Profiles for the Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process. This document describes the first two profiles for NIST's lightweight cryptography project:
The final versions of these profiles will be the foundation of submission requirements for the first algorithms in NIST's lightweight cryptography portfolio.
System and Communications Protection; System and Information Integrity
Publication:
Draft Whitepaper (pdf)
Supplemental Material:
Public Comments on Profiles I and II (June 2017) (pdf)
Related NIST Publications:
Document History:
04/26/17: Other (Draft)