WAGE: an authenticated encryption algorithm

WAGE is designed, at the ComSec Lab at the University of Waterloo, by Mark Aagaard, Riham AlTawy, Guang Gong, Kalikinkar Mandal, Raghvendra Rohit, and Nusa Zidaric.

WAGE is a lightweight authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) algorithm. The WAGE AEAD algorithm offers 128-bit security, and supports a key of 128 bits and authentication tag size of 128 bits. At the core of WAGE is a lightweight permutation whose core components are a shift register with a feedback polynomial, two Welch-Gong (WG) permutations, and four 7-bit Sboxes. WAGE is designed to be efficient in hardware and provide a good trade-off between security and hardware efficiency.