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Which Will Become The Light-weight Encryption Standard? Will it be Sparkling or be an Elephant?

Standardization takes time, and often this is for a good reason. For this, you can have a competition for the best technology, and then for a whole community to review the methods presented. Then you have a balanced scorecard which assessess the key features of each of the methods. For NIST, this has been the way that they have…