Optimizing Implementations of Lightweight Building Blocks

• Published in: IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology pp. 130 - 168
• Main Authors: Jérémy Jean, Thomas Peyrin, Siang Meng Sim, Jade Tourteaux
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 01.12.2017
• Subjects: ASIC; Boolean function; Implementation; LIGHTER; Lightweight Block Ciphers; MDS Matrix; Meet-in-the-Middle; Sbox

We study the synthesis of small functions used as building blocks in lightweight cryptographic designs in terms of hardware implementations. This phase most notably appears during the ASIC implementation of cryptographic primitives. The quality of this step directly affects the output circuit, and w...