Paper 2023/676
From Unbalanced to Perfect: Implementation of Low Energy Stream Ciphers
Abstract
Low energy is an important aspect of hardware implementation. For energy-limited battery-powered devices, low energy stream ciphers can play an important role. In \texttt{IACR ToSC 2021}, Caforio et al. proposed the Perfect Tree energy model for stream cipher that links the structure of combinational logic circuits with state update functions to energy consumption. In addition, a metric given by the model shows a negative correlation with energy consumption, i.e., the higher the balance of the perfect tree, the lower the energy consumption. However, Caforio et al. didn't give a method that eliminate imbalances of the unrolled strand tree for the existing stream ciphers. In this paper, based on the Perfect Tree energy model, we propose a new redundant design model that improve the balances of the unrolled strand tree for the purpose of reducing energy consumption. In order to obtain the redundant design, we propose a search algorithm for returning the corresponding implementation scheme. For the existing stream ciphers, the proposed model and search method can be used to provide a low-power redundancy design scheme. To verify the effectiveness, we apply our redundant model and search method in the stream ciphers (e.g., \texttt{Trivium} and \texttt{Kreyvium}) and conducted a synthetic test. The results of the energy measurement demonstrate that the proposed model and search method can obtain lower energy consumption.
Note: Accepted by Africacrypt 2023
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Africacrypt2023
- Keywords
- Low Energy Stream CipherHardware ImplementationTrivium
- Contact author(s)
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linjikang @ mail sdu edu cn
hejiahui2020 @ mail sdu edu cn
yanhongfan @ sdu edu cn
mqwang @ sdu edu cn - History
- 2023-05-15: approved
- 2023-05-12: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2023/676
- License
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CC0
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/676,
author = {Jikang Lin and Jiahui He and Yanhong Fan and Meiqin Wang},
title = {From Unbalanced to Perfect: Implementation of Low Energy Stream Ciphers},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/676},
year = {2023},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/676}
}
