Lightweight block ciphers: A comparative study

Although the AES is an excellent and preferred choice for almost all block cipher applications, it is not suitable for extremely constrained environments such as RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) tags and sensor networks. Therefore lightweight cryptography has become very vital and a strong dema...

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Main Authors: Salim, Sufya, Taha, Imad
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Language:English
Published: Design for Scientific Renaissance 2012
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spelling iium-273672016-02-22T00:19:48Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/27367/ Lightweight block ciphers: A comparative study Salim, Sufya Taha, Imad QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Although the AES is an excellent and preferred choice for almost all block cipher applications, it is not suitable for extremely constrained environments such as RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) tags and sensor networks. Therefore lightweight cryptography has become very vital and a strong demand in designing secure lightweight cryptographic modules is required. This paper meant to be a reference (for the cryptographic designers) on the lightweight block ciphers. It starts by doing a survey to collect the latest proposed ciphers, then to study them in terms of their algorithms specifications, hardware implementation and attacks. Finally, after the explanation and comparison, this research can be the basement for starting point to improve the lightweight block cipher in many directions like number of clock cycle, size of memory, number of Chosen Plaintext, GE, throughput and attacks. Also, this paper is under our investigation Design for Scientific Renaissance 2012-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/27367/1/565-12-12.pdf Salim, Sufya and Taha, Imad (2012) Lightweight block ciphers: A comparative study. Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Technology Research(JACSTR), 2 (4). pp. 159-165. ISSN 2231-8852 http://www.sign-ific-ance.co.uk/dsr/index.php/JACSTR
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Salim, Sufya
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Lightweight block ciphers: A comparative study
description Although the AES is an excellent and preferred choice for almost all block cipher applications, it is not suitable for extremely constrained environments such as RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) tags and sensor networks. Therefore lightweight cryptography has become very vital and a strong demand in designing secure lightweight cryptographic modules is required. This paper meant to be a reference (for the cryptographic designers) on the lightweight block ciphers. It starts by doing a survey to collect the latest proposed ciphers, then to study them in terms of their algorithms specifications, hardware implementation and attacks. Finally, after the explanation and comparison, this research can be the basement for starting point to improve the lightweight block cipher in many directions like number of clock cycle, size of memory, number of Chosen Plaintext, GE, throughput and attacks. Also, this paper is under our investigation
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author Salim, Sufya
Taha, Imad
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Taha, Imad
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title Lightweight block ciphers: A comparative study
title_short Lightweight block ciphers: A comparative study
title_full Lightweight block ciphers: A comparative study
title_fullStr Lightweight block ciphers: A comparative study
title_full_unstemmed Lightweight block ciphers: A comparative study
title_sort lightweight block ciphers: a comparative study
publisher Design for Scientific Renaissance
publishDate 2012
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