The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced a new cryptography standard that's available for immediate use. The standard is designed to assure the protection of authenticated ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected a group of cryptographic algorithms to secure the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the related tiny sensors and actuators.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology says it will publish the Ascon group of algorithms in its lightweight cryptography standard later this year. NIST has found "a worthy defender" of ...

The contest for standardization of a lightweight crypto (LWC) algorithm has just finished. US standards body NIST selected Ascon as the winner. Ascon is an algorithm proposed by an international team ...