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Ascon is a family of authenticated encryption and hashing algorithms designed to be lightweight and easy to implement, even with added countermeasures against side-channel attacks. It has been selected as new standard for lightweight cryptography in the NIST Lightweight Cryptography competition (2019–2023).
Ascon is developed by the Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK) at Graz University of Technology. IAIK is the largest university institute in Austria for research and education in security and privacy. It has been active in this field for more than 30 years and currently employs more than 60 researchers.
Ascon is developed by the Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK) at Graz University of Technology. IAIK is the largest university institute in Austria for research and education in security and privacy. It has been active in this field for more than 30 years and currently employs more than 60 researchers.
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