NIST hosted the NIST Workshop on the Requirements for an Accordion Cipher Mode 2024 on June 20–21, 2024, at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in Rockville, Maryland. This workshop brought together leading experts, researchers, and practitioners from across the cybersecurity and cryptography fields to discuss the design, implementation, and potential use cases for an Accordion Cipher Mode.
This new Interagency Report (IR), NIST IR 8537, summarizes the feedback received from participants, key takeaways, insights shared during the event, and important considerations for future research and development in this area.