Eight-sided fortress: a lightweight block cipher

doi:10.1016/S1005-8885(14)60275-2

Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters) ›› 2014, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (1): 104-108.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(14)60275-2

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Eight-sided fortress: a lightweight block cipher

1. School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China 2. Science and Technology on Information Assume Laboratory, Beijing 100072, China 3. No.2 Middle School Attached to Shnadong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China 4. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China

Received:2013-08-11 Revised:2013-10-18 Online:2014-02-28 Published:2014-02-28
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This work was supported by the the National Science Foundation of China (61272434), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2012FM004, ZR2013FQ021), and the Project of Senior Visiting Scholar of Shandong Province and Foundation of Science and Technology on Information Assume Laboratory (KJ-13-004).

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Abstract:

In this paper, we present a new lightweight block cipher named eight-sided fortress (ESF), which is suitable for resource-constrained environments such as sensor networks and low-cost radio rrequency identification (RFID) tags. Meanwhile, we present the specification, design rationale and evaluation results in terms of the hardware implementation. For realizing both efficiency and security in embedded systems, similar to the other lightweight block ciphers, ESF is 64 bits block length and key size is 80 bits. It is inspired from existing block cipher, PRESENT and LBlock. The encryption algorithm of ESF is based on variant Feistel structure with SPN round function, used Feistel network as an overall structure with the purpose of minimizing computational resources.

Key words:

block cipher, lightweight, RFID tags, efficiency, cryptography design

LIU Xuan, ZHANG Wen-ying, LIU Xiang-zhong, LIU Feng. Eight-sided fortress: a lightweight block cipher[J]. Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters), 2014, 21(1): 104-108.

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