Design of a High Performance Implementation of the Rijndael Cipher Using Three-Level Architecture
ABSTRACT
For a long period of time, the Data Encryption Standard (DES) was considered as a standard for the symmetric key encryption. It has a key length of 64 bits. Due to the vast growing of processing speed, this small key length can easily be broken. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) will replace DES, as it is based on a key length of 128-bits or more. In the present paper, a design of a high performance implementation of the AES cipher will be proposed. An experimental performance evaluation of the proposed design will be provided. The experimental study will be applied for different block size lengths of the message to be encrypted. The performance of the proposed design will be evaluated considering a set of criteria such as the average execution encryption time per round, average encryption speed, speedup, and efficiency.
AUTHORS
Assistant Professor, Informatics Department, Electronics Research Institute
Egypt
Heba K. Aslan is an assistant professor at the Informatics Department in the Electronics Research Institute, Egypt. Her fields of interest include encryption protocols, key distribution, and intrusion detection systems. She obtained a BSc, MSc, and PhD from Cairo University in 1990, 1994 and 1998 respectively.
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