This paper presents WAGE, a new lightweight sponge-based authenticated cipher whose
underlying permutation is based on a 37-stage Galois NLFSR over F 2 7. At its core, the …

WAGE is a hardware-oriented authenticated cipher, which has the smallest (unprotected)
hardware cost (for 128-bit security level) among the round 2 candidates of the NIST …

Motivated by a number of applications of lightweight ciphers in privacyenhancing
cryptography (PEC) techniques such as secure multiparty computation (SMPC) and fully …

WAGE is a hardware-oriented authenticated cipher, which has the smallest (unprotected)
hardware cost (for 128-bit security level) among the round 2 candidates of the NIST …

SpoC is a family of lightweight authenticated encryption algorithm and a round 2 candidate
of the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization competition [5]. In this article, we report …

In this document, we report the activity progress of the WAGE authenticated cipher after the
round 2 submission to NIST. The following activities were performed on WAGE: additional …

ACE is a permutation based authenticated encryption (AE) and hash algorithm which
provides 128-bit security for AE and hash with a single hardware circuit. In this note, we …

Spix is an authenticated encryption algorithm that supports both messages and associated
data (AD) and a round 2 candidate of the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization …