Performance-efficient flexible architecture of m–Crypton cipher for resource-constrained applications

Some traditional cryptographic techniques, like the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256 for hashing), Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA/Elliptic Curve for signing) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES for encryption), perform well on systems with good hardware memory and processing capabilities. However, these...

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Main Authors: Pulkit Singh, S. V. S. Prasad, Shipra Upadhyay, Rajan Singh
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-10-01
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00051144.2024.2395617
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description Some traditional cryptographic techniques, like the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256 for hashing), Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA/Elliptic Curve for signing) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES for encryption), perform well on systems with good hardware memory and processing capabilities. However, these techniques engage in conflict to keep up with the world of sensor networks and embedded systems. Lightweight cryptography plays a major role in security constraints, especially in resource-limited devices such as RFID tags, smart cards, sensor nodes and IoT. This paper proposes a flexible hardware architecture of lightweight m-Crypton block cipher for high-speed resource-constrained applications. The proposed architecture enables a single architecture appropriate for the many encryptions' key sizes. Therefore, the proposed architecture changes the security level in resource-constrained applications by integrating several key sizes into a single design. Furthermore, this architecture outperformed the conventional block ciphers in terms of throughput-to-area ratio achieving a 10.37 throughput-to-area ratio better than other lightweight block ciphers. The proposed design can be used in high bandwidth applications, high-end RFID and IoT smart devices. Hence, the proposed design demonstrates that increasing the speed of cipher implementation results in more plaintext transformations into ciphertext. All results have been verified and simulated for several Xilinx design suite families.
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spelling doaj-art-1ce5a0eda9cb445da7b4fca0c3493f2b2025-08-20T02:07:02ZengTaylor & Francis GroupAutomatika0005-11441848-33802024-10-016541447145710.1080/00051144.2024.2395617Performance-efficient flexible architecture of m–Crypton cipher for resource-constrained applicationsPulkit Singh0S. V. S. Prasad1Shipra Upadhyay2Rajan Singh3Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, IndiaDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, IndiaDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, IndiaDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, IndiaSome traditional cryptographic techniques, like the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256 for hashing), Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA/Elliptic Curve for signing) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES for encryption), perform well on systems with good hardware memory and processing capabilities. However, these techniques engage in conflict to keep up with the world of sensor networks and embedded systems. Lightweight cryptography plays a major role in security constraints, especially in resource-limited devices such as RFID tags, smart cards, sensor nodes and IoT. This paper proposes a flexible hardware architecture of lightweight m-Crypton block cipher for high-speed resource-constrained applications. The proposed architecture enables a single architecture appropriate for the many encryptions' key sizes. Therefore, the proposed architecture changes the security level in resource-constrained applications by integrating several key sizes into a single design. Furthermore, this architecture outperformed the conventional block ciphers in terms of throughput-to-area ratio achieving a 10.37 throughput-to-area ratio better than other lightweight block ciphers. The proposed design can be used in high bandwidth applications, high-end RFID and IoT smart devices. Hence, the proposed design demonstrates that increasing the speed of cipher implementation results in more plaintext transformations into ciphertext. All results have been verified and simulated for several Xilinx design suite families.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00051144.2024.2395617FPGAhardware implementationlightweight cryptographyresource-constrained devicethroughput
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Performance-efficient flexible architecture of m–Crypton cipher for resource-constrained applications
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FPGA
hardware implementation
lightweight cryptography
resource-constrained device
throughput
title Performance-efficient flexible architecture of m–Crypton cipher for resource-constrained applications
title_full Performance-efficient flexible architecture of m–Crypton cipher for resource-constrained applications
title_fullStr Performance-efficient flexible architecture of m–Crypton cipher for resource-constrained applications
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title_short Performance-efficient flexible architecture of m–Crypton cipher for resource-constrained applications
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topic FPGA
hardware implementation
lightweight cryptography
resource-constrained device
throughput
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00051144.2024.2395617
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