Ascon – Authenticated Encryption and Hashing

 
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 Ascon
 
 Lightweight Authenticated Encryption & Hashing
 
 Ascon is a family of authenticated encryption <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_encryption> and hashing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function> algorithms designed to be lightweight and easy to implement, even with added countermeasures against side-channel attacks. Ascon has been selected as new standard <https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/02/nist-selects-lightweight-cryptography-algorithms-protect-small-devices> for lightweight cryptography in the NIST Lightweight Cryptography competition (2019–2023) <https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/lightweight-cryptography/finalists>. Ascon has also been selected as the primary choice for lightweight authenticated encryption in the final portfolio of the CAESAR competition (2014–2019) <https://competitions.cr.yp.to/caesar-submissions.html>.