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		coppsilgold 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NIST Finalizes 'Lightweight Cryptography' Standard... They chose Ascon which is a good set of same sponge-based cryptographic functions if you don't have hardware acceleration for AES or the CPU resources for chacha20 which is the intention of the standard. The security is 128-bits (comparable to AES-128). <https://ascon.isec.tugraz.at/specification.html>

skeezyboy 6 months ago | [–]

i too approve of their choice of cryptographic functions, if not a little miffed they didnt come to me first

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