The Hardware Implementation of a Lightweight Block Cipher Algorithm and a Message Authentication Algorithm

Abstract:

Among the block cipher algorithms, AES or DES is an excellent and preferred choice for most block cipher applications. But AES and DES are not very suitable for hardware implementation because of the high cost that they require large areas of routing and the processing efficiency is low, relatively. So lightweight cipher algorithms come into beings, among which PRESENT is very competitive. Along with the structure of a message authentication algorithm ALRED, a new family of Tunable Lightweight MAC based on PRESENT is proposed, that is TuLP. However, PRESENT is not able to resist side channel attack, so is TuLP, of course. For the above reason, in this paper, we provide an improvement of PRESENT by inserting random dummy cycles as well as shuffling to strengthen the security of PRESENT against side channel attacks. We will implement PRESENT and TuLP in Verilog and do simulation on Xilinx ISim platform. At last, we would like to provide the power analyzing of Xilinx XPower.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 546-547)
• Pages: 1489-1494
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.546-547.1489
• Online since: July 2012
• Authors: Yi Kun Hu, Zun Yang Qin
• Keywords: Anti-Side Channel Attack, Hardware Implementation, Lightweight Cipher Algorithm

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