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Ascon is a stream-oriented AEAD, not a block cipher, and it requires a nonce. Because of this, it would not work for the usecases in TFA, not to mention it's al

by 201984 8mo ago

Ascon is a stream-oriented AEAD, not a block cipher, and it requires a nonce. Because of this, it would not work for the usecases in TFA, not to mention it's also quite a bit slower than Speck.