Dietary Recommendations for Lightweight Block Ciphers: Power, Energy and Area Analysis of Recently Developed Architectures

Lejla Batina; Amitabh Das; Baris Ege; Elif Bilge Kavun; Nele Mentens; Christof Paar; Ingrid Verbauwhede; Tolga Yalcin

Paper 2013/753

Dietary Recommendations for Lightweight Block Ciphers: Power, Energy and Area Analysis of Recently Developed Architectures

Lejla Batina, Amitabh Das, Baris Ege, Elif Bilge Kavun, Nele Mentens, Christof Paar, Ingrid Verbauwhede, and Tolga Yalcin

Abstract

In this paper we perform a comprehensive area, power, and energy analysis of some of the most recently-developed lightweight block ciphers and we compare them to the standard AES algorithm. We do this for several different architectures of the considered block ciphers. Our evaluation method consists of estimating the pre-layout power consumption and the derived energy using Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler and ModelSIM simulations.We show that the area is not always correlated to the power and energy consumption, which is of importance for mobile battery-fed devices. As a result, this paper can be used to make a choice of architecture when the algorithm has already been fixed; or it can help deciding which algorithm to choose based on energy and key/block length requirements.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Implementation
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Minor revision. RFIDSec 2013
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41332-2_7
Keywords: block ciphers hardware implementation area power energy
Contact author(s): elif kavun @ rub de
History: 2013-11-17: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2013/753
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/753,
      author = {Lejla Batina and Amitabh Das and Baris Ege and Elif Bilge Kavun and Nele Mentens and Christof Paar and Ingrid Verbauwhede and Tolga Yalcin},
      title = {Dietary Recommendations for Lightweight Block Ciphers: Power, Energy and Area Analysis of Recently Developed Architectures},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2013/753},
      year = {2013},
      doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-41332-2_7},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/753}
}