A 1 Gbps Chaos-Based Stream Cipher Implemented in 0.18 m CMOS Technology

Garcia-Bosque, M. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Diez-Señorans, G. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Pérez-Resa, A. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Sánchez-Azqueta, C. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Aldea, C. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Celma, S. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: In this work, a novel chaos-based stream cipher based on a skew tent map is proposed and implemented in a 0.18 µm CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) technology. The proposed ciphering algorithm uses a linear feedback shift register that perturbs the orbits generated by the skew tent map after each iteration. This way, the randomness of the generated sequences is considerably improved. The implemented stream cipher was capable of achieving encryption speeds of 1 Gbps by using an approximate area of ~20,000 2-NAND equivalent gates, with a power consumption of 24.1 mW. To test the security of the proposed cipher, the generated keystreams were subjected to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) randomness tests, proving that they were undistinguishable from truly random sequences. Finally, other security aspects such as the key sensitivity, key space size, and security against reconstruction attacks were studied, proving that the stream cipher is secure.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/electronics8060623

Año: 2019

Publicado en: Electronics 8 (2019), 623 [1-10]
ISSN: 2079-9292

Factor impacto JCR: 2.412 (2019)

Categ. JCR: ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC rank: 125 / 265 = 0.472 (2019) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.303 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Q2) - Control and Systems Engineering (Q3) - Signal Processing (Q3) - Hardware and Architecture (Q3) - Computer Networks and Communications (Q3)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/FPU14-03523
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/TEC2017-85867-R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/TEC2014-52840

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Física Aplicada (Dpto. Física Aplicada)
Área (Departamento): Proy. investigación JBA (Dpto. Ingeniería Electrón.Com.)
Área (Departamento): Área Electrónica (Dpto. Ingeniería Electrón.Com.)