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Report on Lightweight Cryptography

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Author(s)

Kerry McKay, Lawrence E. Bassham, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Nicky Mouha

Abstract

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.
Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 8114
Report Number
8114

Keywords

Constrained devices, lightweight cryptography, standardization

Citation

McKay, K. , Bassham, L. , Sonmez Turan, M. and Mouha, N. (2017), Report on Lightweight Cryptography, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8114, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=922743 (Accessed December 10, 2024)

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Created March 27, 2017, Updated October 14, 2021