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WAGE

WAGE authenticated encryption algorithm with 259-bit permutation, NIST LWC Round 2 finalist. Features WG permutation and parallel S-box operations for lightweight applications.

Properties

Property	Value
Category	Authenticated Encryption
Sub-category	Authenticated Encryption
Security status	🧪 Experimental
Complexity	Advanced
Inventor	Yalijiang Yang, Zhongming Wu, Xinxin Fan
Year	2019
Origin	🇨🇳 China
Source	algorithms/aead/wage.js

Parameters

Parameter	Supported values
Key sizes	16 bytes (128 bits)
Tag sizes	16 bytes (128 bits)

Capabilities

Flag	Value
SupportsDetached	No

Security

Status: 🧪 Experimental

No vulnerabilities are recorded for this implementation.

Documentation

• WAGE Official Page
• NIST LWC Round 2

References

• rweather/lightweight-crypto C Reference Implementation

Test vectors

8 vectors ship with this algorithm and run in the test suite. Byte values are hexadecimal.

Vector 1 — NIST KAT Vector #1 (empty PT, empty AD)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
associatedData	(empty)
input	(empty)
expected	0466697cc97cdb5604bc6f6b5cba9014

Vector 2 — NIST KAT Vector #2 (empty PT, 1-byte AD)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
associatedData	00
input	(empty)
expected	afea3a5c7c215d819f028fc060e0b010

Vector 3 — NIST KAT Vector #9 (empty PT, 8-byte AD)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
associatedData	0001020304050607
input	(empty)
expected	4b4819c8cf89d87e90e1dc6ad863193c

Vector 4 — NIST KAT Vector #17 (empty PT, 16-byte AD)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
associatedData	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
input	(empty)
expected	49280eff5a89236f9b53c30b89c936ee

Vector 5 — NIST KAT Vector #34 (1-byte PT, empty AD)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
associatedData	(empty)
input	00
expected	a4c7f41212ee54ffc71dee47e69dcd01e5

Vector 6 — NIST KAT Vector #35 (1-byte PT, 1-byte AD)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
associatedData	00
input	00
expected	9c09707bb8edba95afe9c26f607c3b6b2d

Vector 7 — NIST KAT Vector #42 (1-byte PT, 8-byte AD)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
associatedData	0001020304050607
input	00
expected	6af94f77ae28c9bfcc719c771878689097

Vector 8 — NIST KAT Vector #50 (1-byte PT, 16-byte AD)

Field	Value
key	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
nonce	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
associatedData	000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f
input	00
expected	4893485dc4caa674b39b9007b43d1c67e7

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