Paper 2023/391 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2023/391 ↗

Additional Modes for ASCON

Rhys Weatherley
Abstract

NIST selected the A SCON family of cryptographic primitives for standardization in February 2023 as the final step in the Lightweight Cryptography Competition. The ASCON submission to the competition provided Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD), hashing, and Extensible Output Function (XOF) modes. Real world cryptography systems often need more than packet encryption and simple hashing. Keyed message authentication, key derivation, cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generation (CSPRNG), password hashing, and encryption of sensitive values in memory are also important. This paper defines additional modes that can be deployed on top of ASCON based on proven designs from the literature.

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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2023-05-27: last updated
2023-03-19: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/391
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/391,
      author = {Rhys Weatherley},
      title = {Additional Modes for ASCON},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/391},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/391}
}
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