Triathlon of lightweight block ciphers for the Internet of things

• Published in: Journal of cryptographic engineering Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 283 - 302
• Main Authors: Dinu, Daniel, Corre, Yann Le, Khovratovich, Dmitry, Perrin, Léo, Großschädl, Johann, Biryukov, Alex
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.09.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Benchmarks; Binary codes; Circuits and Systems; Communications Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Science; Cryptology; Data Structures and Information Theory; Encryption; Figure of merit; Internet of Things; Lightweight; Microcontrollers; Networks; Operating Systems; Platforms; Regular Paper; Standardization; Evaluation framework; Benchmarking; Lightweight cryptography; IoT; Block ciphers

In this paper, we introduce a framework for the benchmarking of lightweight block ciphers on a multitude of embedded platforms. Our framework is able to evaluate the execution time, RAM footprint, as well as binary code size, and allows one to define a custom “figure of merit” according to which all...