| No. | LWC Candidates | Team | HDL | No. of variants | Protection Method | Protection Order | Initial Evaluation | Availability | License | Primary Hardware Designers | Academic Advisors / Program Managers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ISAP | Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Austria | VHDL | 7 | Mode-level robustness against physical attacks | N/A | analytical | GitHub | GPL-3.0 | Robert Primas | Stefan Mangard |
| 2 | Ascon, Elephant, GIFT-COFB, ISAP, PHOTON-Beetle, Romulus, SPARKLE, TinyJAMBU, Xoodyak | Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany | Verilog & VHDL | Ascon, Xoodyak: 6 Others: 3 |
HPC2 | 1, 2, 3 | evaluation of the robust probing security of the implementations | GitHub | GPL-3.0 | Nicolai Mueller | Amir Moradi |
| 3 | Elephant, TinyJAMBU, Xoodyak, | Cryptographic Engineering Research Group (CERG), George Mason University, USA | VHDL | 1 | DOM | 1 | t-test | TinyJAMBU: GitHub; Xoodyak: GitHub; Elephant: Per request | GPL-3.0 | Elephant: Richard Haeussler TinyJAMBU: Sammy Lin & Abubakr Abdulgadir Xoodyak: Abubakr Abdulgadir & Richard Haeussler; |
Jens-Peter Kaps & Kris Gaj |
| 4 | Ascon | Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Austria | VHDL | 1 | DOM | 1, 2 | formal verification of the masked implementation of Ascon-p in the glitch-extended probing model using COCO | Most recent version: GitHub; Version submitted and evaluated in response to the GMU Call: GitHub; | GPL-3.0 | Robert Primas & Rishub Nagpal | Stefan Mangard |
| 5 | Xoodyak | Hardware Security and Cryptographic Processor Lab, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China | Verilog & VHDL | 2 | DOM, TI | 1 | t-test | GitHub | GPL-3.0 | Shuohang Peng & Shuying Yin & Cankun Zhao | Leibo Liu & Bohan Yang & Wenping Zhu |
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