Photon: A new mix columns architecture on FPGA

Lightweight cryptography is an important element in smart devices that require data security as one of the features. These smart devices utilize cryptography when transferring sensitive data. Most of the smart devices are resource constrained devices and thus possess limited computing capability and...

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Main Authors: Abbas Y.A., Jidin R., Jamil N., Z'aba M.R., Mohamed M.A.
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spelling my.uniten.dspace-239462023-05-29T14:53:23Z Photon: A new mix columns architecture on FPGA Abbas Y.A. Jidin R. Jamil N. Z'aba M.R. Mohamed M.A. 56417806700 6508169028 36682671900 24726154700 57194596063 Lightweight cryptography is an important element in smart devices that require data security as one of the features. These smart devices utilize cryptography when transferring sensitive data. Most of the smart devices are resource constrained devices and thus possess limited computing capability and low memory space. The PHOTON hash function algorithm is a promising lightweight cryptography approach for resource-constrained devices. It has a complex operation called MixColumns. This paper presents a new MixColumns architecture for PHOTON implemented on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. In our design, the number of complex multiplication opera-tions is reduced by utilizing comparators that are based on four-bit Galois operations. The efficient PHOTON hardware design was coded using a very high speed integrated circuit hardware description language, VHDL. The design was successfully synthesized, mapped, simu-lated and tested on two FPGA evaluation boards namely, Sparten3 and Artix-7. The results show that the proposed design achieve a throughput of 582 Mbps and an efficiency of 1.55 Gbps/slice for Spartan3, while a throughput of 1.41 Gbps and efficiency of 8.66 Gbps/slice are obtained for Artix-7. The performance on both platforms has superseded performance of existing implementations in litera-ture. � 2018 Yasir Amer Abbas et. al. Final 2023-05-29T06:53:23Z 2023-05-29T06:53:23Z 2018 Article 2-s2.0-85082368223 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85082368223&partnerID=40&md5=fd0444dcb3e36317f218200f5c317ae8 https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/23946 7 2.14 Special Issue 14 138 144 Science Publishing Corporation Inc Scopus
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description Lightweight cryptography is an important element in smart devices that require data security as one of the features. These smart devices utilize cryptography when transferring sensitive data. Most of the smart devices are resource constrained devices and thus possess limited computing capability and low memory space. The PHOTON hash function algorithm is a promising lightweight cryptography approach for resource-constrained devices. It has a complex operation called MixColumns. This paper presents a new MixColumns architecture for PHOTON implemented on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. In our design, the number of complex multiplication opera-tions is reduced by utilizing comparators that are based on four-bit Galois operations. The efficient PHOTON hardware design was coded using a very high speed integrated circuit hardware description language, VHDL. The design was successfully synthesized, mapped, simu-lated and tested on two FPGA evaluation boards namely, Sparten3 and Artix-7. The results show that the proposed design achieve a throughput of 582 Mbps and an efficiency of 1.55 Gbps/slice for Spartan3, while a throughput of 1.41 Gbps and efficiency of 8.66 Gbps/slice are obtained for Artix-7. The performance on both platforms has superseded performance of existing implementations in litera-ture. � 2018 Yasir Amer Abbas et. al.
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Photon: A new mix columns architecture on FPGA
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title Photon: A new mix columns architecture on FPGA
title_short Photon: A new mix columns architecture on FPGA
title_full Photon: A new mix columns architecture on FPGA
title_fullStr Photon: A new mix columns architecture on FPGA
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