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    Exploring Energy Efficiency of Lightweight Block Ciphers

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    Authors
    Banik S., Bogdanov A., Regazzoni F.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Year
    2015
    Language
    English
    Abstract
    In the last few years, the field of lightweight cryptography has seen an influx in the number of block ciphers and hash functions being proposed. One of the metrics that define a good lightweight design is the energy consumed per unit operation of the algorithm. For block ciphers, this operation is the encryption of one plaintext. By studying the energy consumption model of a CMOS gate, we arrive at the conclusion that the total energy consumed during the encryption operation of an r-round unrolled architecture of any block cipher is a quadratic function in r. We then apply our model to 9 well known lightweight block ciphers, and thereby try to predict the optimal value of r at which an r-round unrolled architecture for a cipher is likely to be most energy efficient. We also try to relate our results to some physical design parameters like the signal delay across a round and algorithmic parameters like the number of rounds taken to achieve full diffusion of a difference in the plaintext/key.
    Journal
    (IACR) Cryptology ePrint Archive
    Volume
    2015
    Month
    September
    Keywords
    implementation AES, lightweight block cipher, Low Power Energy Circuits

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