The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a new encryption algorithm that will be used to protect small IoT devices.
The algorithm was chosen as the winner in a competition held by NIST.
- This algorithm is called Ascon.
- Ascon is a family of authenticated encryption and hashing algorithms designed to be lightweight and easy to implement.
- Its main features are:
- Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data,
- hashing,
- single lightweight permutation,
- Sponge-based modes of operation with a custom-tailored SPN permutation,
- Easy to implement in software and hardware,
- Lightweight for constrained devices: small state, simple permutation, robust mode,
- Fast in hardware, etc.
- Ascon was
designed by a team of cryptographers from Graz University of
Technology, Infineon Technologies, Lamarr Security Research, and Radboud
University.
