Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems

Designing High-Throughput Hardware Accelerator for Stream Cipher HC-128

Authors:
Chattopadhyay, A. ,  Khalid, A. ,  Maitra, S. ,  Raizada , S.
Book Title:
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2012), May 20 -23, Seoul, Korea
Pages:
p.p. 1448 - 1451
Date:
2012
DOI:
10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271518
Language:
English
Abstract:
Due to ubiquitous deployment of embedded systems, security and privacy are emerging as major design concerns. For that purpose, new stream ciphers are being proposed by the cryptographic researchers. HC-128 is one of the recent stream ciphers that received attention after its selection as an eStream candidate. Till date, the cipher is believed to have a good security margin. In this paper we study several implementation issues for HC-128 in a disciplined manner. We first discuss the experience on embedded and customizable processors. Then we consider the ASIC implementation for co-processor design. Further we explore several parallelization strategies for faster execution of the cipher. To the best of our knowledge such a detailed implementation exercise has not been presented in the literature. Our novel implementation strategies mark the fastest HC-128 execution reported till date.
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