[RustCrypto]: Ascon permutation

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Pure Rust implementation of the permutation of [Ascon], a family of authenticated encryption and hashing algorithms designed to be lightweight and easy to implement.

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About

Ascon is a family of lightweight algorithms built on a core permutation algorithm. These algorithms include:

Ascon has been selected as [new standard for lightweight cryptography] in the [NIST Lightweight Cryptography] competition, and has also been selected as the primary choice for lightweight authenticated encryption in the final portfolio of the [CAESAR competition].

Minimum Supported Rust Version

This crate requires Rust 1.60 at a minimum.

We may change the MSRV in the future, but it will be accompanied by a minor version bump.

License

Licensed under either of:

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.