This repository contains several implementations of the Ascon hardware cipher. Ascon is a candidate in the CAESAR competition (https://competitions.cr.yp.to/caesar.html). The implementations are made in the function of the graduation thesis of Michael Fivez (michael_fivez@hotmail.com) at the KULeuven, in the COSIC department (year 2015-2016).
The thesis is titled 'Energy efficient hardware implementations of CAESAR submissions', and can be found on the COSIC website (www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications).
A detailed description of the implementations can be found in this thesis.
Each implementation has its own folder that contains the implementation in VHDL. It contains the API wrapper (see the thesis document for a description of this API), the cipher implementation, and some test vectors that verify its functionality (they are generated through software included in the above mentioned API).