Duel of the Cybersecurity Titans for Lightweight Crypto: Meet Romulus

The NIST competition for lightweight cryptography has reached the final stage, and with a shortlist of 10 candidates. Each differs in their approach, but they aim to create a cryptography method that is secure, has a low footprint, and is robust against attacks.

So while many of the contenders, such as ASCON, GIFT and Isap, use the sponge method…