Round 1 Candidates

The following table lists the Round 1 Candidates of the lightweight crypto standardization process.

The success of the NIST Lightweight Crypto Standardization process relies on the efforts of the researchers from the cryptographic community that provide security, implementation and performance analysis of the candidate algorithms. NIST strongly encourages public evaluation and publication of the results throughout the process.

Official comments on the Round 1 Candidates should be submitted using the "Submit Comment" link for the appropriate algorithm. Comments from the lwc-forum Google group subscribers will also be forwarded to the lwc-forum Google group list. We will periodically post and update the comments received to the appropriate algorithm.

All relevant comments will be posted in their entirety and should not include PII information in the body of the email message.

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