Abstract
This paper introduces our dedicated authenticated encryption scheme ICEPOLE. ICEPOLE is a high-speed hardware-oriented scheme, suitable for high-throughput network nodes or generally any environment where specialized hardware (such as FPGAs or ASICs) can be used to provide high data processing rates. ICEPOLE-128 (the primary ICEPOLE variant) is very fast. On the modern FPGA device Virtex 6, a basic iterative architecture of ICEPOLE reaches 41 Gbits/s, which is over 10 times faster than the equivalent implementation of AES-128-GCM. The throughput-to-area ratio is also substantially better when compared to AES-128-GCM. We have carefully examined the security of the algorithm through a range of cryptanalytic techniques and our findings indicate that ICEPOLE offers high security level.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 392-413 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
Volume | 8731 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Event | International workshop on cryptographic hardware and embedded systems (16th : 2014) - Busan, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Duration: 23 Sept 2014 → 26 Sept 2014 |
Keywords
- Authenticated cipher
- Authenticated encryption scheme
- ICEPOLE