Efficient Design Strategies Based on the AES Round Function

Jérémy Jean; Ivica Nikolic

Paper 2016/299

Efficient Design Strategies Based on the AES Round Function

Jérémy Jean and Ivica Nikolic

Abstract

We show several constructions based on the AES round function that can be used as building blocks for MACs and authenticated encryption schemes. They are found by a search of the space of all secure constructions based on an efficient design strategy that has been shown to be one of the most optimal among all the considered. We implement the constructions on the latest Intel's processors. Our benchmarks show that on Intel Skylake the smallest construction runs at 0.188 c/B, while the fastest at only 0.125 c/B, i.e. five times faster than AES-128.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Secret-key cryptography
Publication info: A minor revision of an IACR publication in FSE 2016
Keywords: Fast Software Implementation AES AES-NI Skylake
Contact author(s): jean jeremy @ gmail com
inikolic @ ntu edu sg
History: 2016-03-17: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2016/299
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/299,
      author = {Jérémy Jean and Ivica Nikolic},
      title = {Efficient Design Strategies Based on the {AES} Round Function},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/299},
      year = {2016},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/299}
}