Questions tagged [lightweight]

Small and/or fast ciphers and other cryptographic primitives designed for use in constrained environments, such as embedded MCUs and smart cards.

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What is the official, generally accepted definition of “lightweight crypto”

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What are the drawbacks of "lightweight crypto"?

Last year I learned about another NIST competition. https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/lightweight-cryptography/finalists And I thought to myself: "why would I continue to use heavyweight cryptography in my desktop and server environments, if we have…
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