Preliminary Hardware Benchmarking of a Group of Round 2 NIST Lightweight AEAD Candidates

Mustafa Khairallah; Thomas Peyrin; Anupam Chattopadhyay

Paper 2020/1459

Preliminary Hardware Benchmarking of a Group of Round 2 NIST Lightweight AEAD Candidates

Mustafa Khairallah, Thomas Peyrin, and Anupam Chattopadhyay

Abstract

In this report, we analyze the hardware implementations of 10 candidates for Round 2 of the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process. These candidates are Ascon, DryGASCON, Elephant, Gimli, PHOTON-Beetle, Pyjamask, Romulus, Subterranean, TinyJAMBU and Xoodyak. Specifically, we study the implementations of these algorithms when synthesized using the TSMC 65nm and FDSOI 28nm technologies and Synopsys Design Compiler, targeting various performance trade-offs and different use-cases. We show how different candidates stack-up against such trade-offs. We base our benchmarking parameters and metrics on real-world use-cases, such as high-speed applications, lightweight communication protocols and internet payloads.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Implementation
Publication info: Preprint. MINOR revision.
Contact author(s): mustafam001 @ e ntu edu sg
History: 2020-11-19: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2020/1459
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/1459,
      author = {Mustafa Khairallah and Thomas Peyrin and Anupam Chattopadhyay},
      title = {Preliminary Hardware Benchmarking of a Group of Round 2 {NIST} Lightweight {AEAD} Candidates},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/1459},
      year = {2020},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1459}
}