Will Joan Daemon Win The NIST Standard For a Third Time? Meet Xoodyak — The Light-Weight Cipher
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4 min readDec 26, 2022
In 2022, NIST defined the winner of the PQC (Post Quantum Cryptography) competition. These were Kyber for Key Exchange/Public Key Encryption, and Crystals for Digital Signatures. 2023 will bring the winner of the light-weight cryptography competition that has been running since 2018. Currently, there are 10 finalists: ASCON…