Hello Dmytro,

thanks for bringing ASCON here, I'm eager to use it in COSE based
systems.

There are concrete ASCON products I'd like to use:

* The NIST IPD allows the truncation of the tag to 64 bit. (For
  comparison, the default algorithm used in RFC8613 OSCORE is
  AES-CCM-16-64-128, which has 64-bit tags).

  (If NIST still picks up the request from IEEE and others[1] and
  some more IETFers[2], also 32-bit tags).

* Ascon-Hash256 would be a natural choice for combining with Ascon-AEAD
  into an EDHOC cipher suite (allowing small implementation sizes due to
  shared primitives of the AEAD and hash).

There's probably no hurry to add them to the document now (when the first
iteration cycle is rather about hammering out how things fit with COSE
and JOSE), but please consider adding the shorter tag parametrization
and the hash as the document matures -- those will be most useful
together.

BR
Christian

[1]: 
https://csrc.nist.gov/files/pubs/sp/800/232/ipd/docs/sp800-232-ipd-public-comments-received.pdf
[2]: 
https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/Events/2023/lightweight-cryptography-workshop-2023/documents/accepted-papers/03-proposals-for-standardization-of-ascon-family.pdf

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