Paper 2020/804
Lightweight Ciphers on a 65 nm ASIC - A Comparative Study on Energy Consumption
Bastian Richter and Amir Moradi
Abstract
Low energy consumption is an important factor in today's technologies as many devices run on a battery and there are new applications which require long runtimes with very small batteries. As many of these devices are connected to some kind of network, they require encryption/decryption to securely transmit data. Hence, the energy consumption of the cipher is an important factor for the battery life. We evaluate the energy consumption of lightweight ciphers implemented on a custom 65nm ASIC. Since the energies to measure are very small, we first introduce, compare and evaluate two techniques to precisely measure the energy consumption of a real cryptographic core. In our comparative investigations, using the PRINCE block cipher we examine the effect of the design architecture (round-based versus unrolled) on the amount of energy consumption. In addition to considering other effects (like fixed key versus random key), we compare round-based implementations of different block ciphers (PRINCE, MIDORI and SKINNY) under similar settings providing first such practical investigations.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI - ISVLSI 2020
- Keywords
- implementationenergy consumptionlightweight cipherASIC
- Contact author(s)
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bastian richter @ rub de
amir moradi @ rub de - History
- 2020-06-30: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2020/804
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/804,
author = {Bastian Richter and Amir Moradi},
title = {Lightweight Ciphers on a 65 nm {ASIC} - A Comparative Study on Energy Consumption},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/804},
year = {2020},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/804}
}
