CAESAR Hardware API

Ekawat Homsirikamol; William Diehl; Ahmed Ferozpuri; Farnoud Farahmand; Panasayya Yalla; Jens-Peter Kaps; Kris Gaj

Paper 2016/626

CAESAR Hardware API

Ekawat Homsirikamol, William Diehl, Ahmed Ferozpuri, Farnoud Farahmand, Panasayya Yalla, Jens-Peter Kaps, and Kris Gaj

Abstract

In this paper, we define the CAESAR hardware Application Programming Interface (API) for authenticated ciphers. In particular, our API is intended to meet the requirements of all algorithms submitted to the CAESAR competition. The major parts of our specification include: minimum compliance criteria, interface, communication protocol, and timing characteristics supported by the core. All of them have been defined with the goals of guaranteeing (a) compatibility among implementations of the same algorithm by different designers, and (b) fair benchmarking of authenticated ciphers in hardware.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Implementation
Publication info: Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords: implementation secret-key cryptography authenticated cipher benchmarking API
Contact author(s): kgaj @ gmu edu
History: 2016-06-17: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2016/626
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/626,
      author = {Ekawat Homsirikamol and William Diehl and Ahmed Ferozpuri and Farnoud Farahmand and Panasayya Yalla and Jens-Peter Kaps and Kris Gaj},
      title = {{CAESAR} Hardware {API}},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/626},
      year = {2016},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/626}
}