I hear you, but they could have chosen performant crypto or low power crypto or some variant like that. For many lightweight reminds them of low effort ciphers.

I hear you, but they could have chosen performant crypto or low power crypto or some variant like that. For many lightweight reminds them of low effort ciphers. I see your point though For me if it comes from NIST, I trust it (even with their past shenanigans) because I know the process they use and also they only produce these standards to be used for federal governent software. So they will do a good job.