Hello dear Botan developers,

First of all, thank you for your fantastic work on Botan — I truly appreciate the library and use it with great enthusiasm!

There’s one feature I would love to see added: support for ASCON https://ascon.isec.tugraz.at/
ASCON is a modern and efficient cipher that has won both the CAESAR and the NIST Lightweight Cryptography competitions. Designed specifically for IoT and constrained environments, it offers a comprehensive suite including AEAD, hashing, tagging, extended output function and stream cipher capabilities — essentially everything one might need for secure and lightweight encryption.

It would be fantastic to see ASCON integrated into Botan’s portfolio. I believe it would be a valuable addition for many developers working in resource-constrained contexts or communicating with their embedded devices.

Thank you for considering this request, and keep up the great work!

If this is not the right place to voice a feature request, I sincerely apologise, but I found no hint on your website where to put it.