Comparison of the hardware implementation of stream ciphers
Joint Authors
Sklavos, Nicolas
Galanis, Michalis
Kitsos, Paris
Kostopoulos, Giorgos
Goutis, Costas
Source
The International Arab Journal of Information Technology
Issue
Vol. 2, Issue 4 (31 Oct. 2005), pp.267-274, 8 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2005-10-31
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Topics
Abstract EN
In this paper, the hardware implementations of five representative stream ciphers are compared in terms of performance and consumed area in an FPGA device.
The ciphers used for the comparison are the A5 / 1, W7, E0, RC4 and Helix.
The first three ones have been used for the security part of well-known standards, especially wireless communication protocols.
The Helix cipher is a recently introduced fast, word oriented, stream cipher.
W7 algorithm has been recently proposed as a more trustworthy solution for GSM, due to the security problems concerning A5 / 1.
The designs were implemented using VHDL language.
For the hardware implementation of the designs, an FPGA device was used.
The implementation results illustrate the hardware performance of each stream cipher in terms of throughput-to-area ratio.
This ratio equals to : 5.88 for the A5 / 1, 1.26 for the W7, 0.21 for the E0, 2.45 for the Helix and 0.86 for the RC4.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Galanis, Michalis& Kitsos, Paris& Kostopoulos, Giorgos& Sklavos, Nicolas& Goutis, Costas. 2005. Comparison of the hardware implementation of stream ciphers. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology،Vol. 2, no. 4, pp.267-274.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-12268
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Galanis, Michalis…[et al.]. Comparison of the hardware implementation of stream ciphers. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology Vol. 2, no. 4 (Oct. 2005), pp.267-274.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-12268
American Medical Association (AMA)
Galanis, Michalis& Kitsos, Paris& Kostopoulos, Giorgos& Sklavos, Nicolas& Goutis, Costas. Comparison of the hardware implementation of stream ciphers. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology. 2005. Vol. 2, no. 4, pp.267-274.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-12268
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 273
Record ID
BIM-12268