Presentation 2021-03-04
Design and Evaluation of Efficient AES S-box Hardware with Optimization of Linear Mappings
Ayano Nakashima, Rei Ueno, Naofumi Homma,
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Abstract(in English) This paper presents a new AES S-Box hardware design based on the optimization of linear mappings by combining multiplicative and exponential offsets. In general, the performance of efficient AES S-Box hardware with composite field representations depends largely on the construction of linear mappings (i.e., transformation matrices) between AES polynomial field and the composite field before and after S-Box. Multiplicative and exponential offset techniques have been reported previously for obtaining the optimal transformation matrix, but the optimization combined with both techniques has been applied only to S-Box of Boyar-Peralta type variants. In this paper, we propose an application of multiplicative and exponential offsets to AES S-Box hardware based on redundant Galois field arithmetic. In particular, we design two types of the S-Box hardware: one for only encryption (ENC) and another for both encryption and decryption (ENC/DEC), and evaluate their performances by logic synthesis using Nangate 45nm Open Cell Library. From the evaluation applied area optimization constraints results, we show that the proposed S-Box hardware for ENC and ENC/DEC improves by 23.2% and 20.1% in the area delay product, respectively, compared with the conventional S-Box hardware based on redundant Galois field arithmetic. Moreover, we show that the proposed S-Box hardware for ENC and ENC/DEC is up to 8.7% and 28.8% better in area delay product, respectively, even compared with the most efficient ones. In the evaluation with frequency optimization constraints, we also show that proposed S-Box hardware for ENC and ENC/DEC achieve higher performance in comparison with the conventional ones.
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Keyword(in English) AES / S-Box / linear operations / ASIC / cryptographic hardware
Paper # VLD2020-84,HWS2020-59
Date of Issue 2021-02-24 (VLD, HWS)

Conference Information
Committee HWS / VLD
Conference Date 2021/3/3(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Design Technology for System-on-Silicon, Hardware Security, etc.
Chair Makoto Ikeda(Univ. of Tokyo) / Daisuke Fukuda(Fujitsu Labs.)
Vice Chair Yasuhisa Shimazaki(Renesas Electronics) / Makoto Nagata(Kobe Univ.) / Kazutoshi Kobayashi(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Yasuhisa Shimazaki(Kyushu Univ.) / Makoto Nagata(NTT) / Kazutoshi Kobayashi(Hitachi)
Assistant / Takuma Nishimoto(Hitachi)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Hardware Security / Technical Committee on VLSI Design Technologies
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Design and Evaluation of Efficient AES S-box Hardware with Optimization of Linear Mappings
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) AES
Keyword(2) S-Box
Keyword(3) linear operations
Keyword(4) ASIC
Keyword(5) cryptographic hardware
1st Author's Name Ayano Nakashima
1st Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Rei Ueno
2nd Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Naofumi Homma
3rd Author's Affiliation Tohoku University/CREST(Tohoku Univ.)
Date 2021-03-04
Paper # VLD2020-84,HWS2020-59
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) VLD-400,HWS-401
Page pp.pp.91-96(VLD), pp.91-96(HWS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-02-24 (VLD, HWS)