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Dietary Recommendations for Lightweight Block Ciphers: Power, Energy and Area Analysis of Recently Developed Architectures

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFIDSec 2013)

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In this paper we perform a comprehensive area, power, and energy analysis of some of the most recently-developed lightweight block ciphers and we compare them to the standard AES algorithm. We do this for several different architectures of the considered block ciphers. Our evaluation method consists of estimating the pre-layout power consumption and the derived energy using Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler and ModelSIM simulations. We show that the area is not always correlated to the power and energy consumption, which is of importance for mobile battery-fed devices. As a result, this paper can be used to make a choice of architecture when the algorithm has already been fixed; or it can help deciding which algorithm to choose based on energy and key/block length requirements.

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This work was supported in part by Technology Foundation STW, The Netherlands as STW project SIDES and by the Research Council KU Leuven: TENSE (GOA/11/007), by iMinds, by the Flemish Government, FWO G.0550.12N and by the Hercules Foundation AKUL/11/19.

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  1. Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Lejla Batina & Barış Ege

  2. ESAT/COSIC, KU Leuven and iMinds, Leuven, Belgium

    Lejla Batina, Amitabh Das, Nele Mentens & Ingrid Verbauwhede

  3. Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Elif Bilge Kavun, Christof Paar & Tolga Yalçın

  4. ACRO/ES&S, Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg, Diepenbeek, Belgium

    Nele Mentens

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Batina, L. et al. (2013). Dietary Recommendations for Lightweight Block Ciphers: Power, Energy and Area Analysis of Recently Developed Architectures. In: Hutter, M., Schmidt, JM. (eds) Radio Frequency Identification. RFIDSec 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8262. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41332-2_7

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