This repository hosts the benchmarking framework used to evaluate the software performance of the finalists of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Project on microcontrollers.

• src: benchmarking framework source code and the build scripts used to perform the experiments
• implementations: implementations of the Finalists gathered from public sources
• benchmarks: benchmark results

More information on finalists can be found here.

• ASCON
• Elephant
• GIFT-COFB
• Grain-128AEAD
• ISAP
• PHOTON-Beetle
• Romulus
• SPARKLE
• TinyJambu
• Xoodyak

More information on implementations included in this effort can be found here. Please note that this repository only includes implementations that have successfully passed known answer tests on at least one of the test platforms listed below.

Benchmarking was performed on the following development boards:

• Arduino Uno R3 (ATmega328P)
• Arduino Nano Every (ATmega4809)
• Arduino MKR Zero (SAMD21G18A)
• Arduino Nano 33 BLE (nRF52840)
• Arduino Due (AT91SAM3X8E)
• Digilent uC32 (PIC32MX340F512H)
• Digilent chipKIT MX3 (PIC32MX320F128H)¹
• NodeMCU v2 (ESP8266)

Benchmarking results can be found here.

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