Comment Comment by tptacek At last, Joan Daemen loses a NIST contest. :)Presumably it helped that Ascon was also a CAESAR finalist.Ascon is a Duplex Sponge construction, and an extremely good introduction to that concept is here:https://codahale.com/the-joy-of-duplexes/(Xoodyak, Coda's preferred Duplex, was a contestant --- Daemen's contestant, in fact.) parent tptacek 3 years ago
Presumably it helped that Ascon was also a CAESAR finalist.
Ascon is a Duplex Sponge construction, and an extremely good introduction to that concept is here:
https://codahale.com/the-joy-of-duplexes/
(Xoodyak, Coda's preferred Duplex, was a contestant --- Daemen's contestant, in fact.)