• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.499-510
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• 2013

Hardware-Software co-simulation of a multiple image encryption technique shall be described in this paper. Our proposed multiple image encryption technique is based on the Latin Square Image Cipher (LSIC). First, a carrier image that is based on the Latin Square is generated by using 256-bits of length key. The XOR operation is applied between an input image and the Latin Square Image to generate an encrypted image. Then, the XOR operation is applied between the encrypted image and the second input image to encrypt the second image. This process is continues until the nth input image is encrypted. We achieved hardware co-simulation of the proposed multiple image encryption technique by using the Xilinx System Generator (XSG). This encryption technique is modeled using Simulink and XSG Block set and synthesized onto Virtex 2 pro FPGA device. We validated our proposed technique by using the hardware software co-simulation method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.888-894
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• 2015

This paper describes an efficient hardware design of Lightweight Encryption Algorithm (LEA) developed by National Security Research Institute(NSRI). The LEA crypto-processor supports for master key of 128-bit. To achieve small-area and low-power implementation, an efficient hardware sharing is employed, which shares hardware resources for encryption and decryption in round transformation block and key scheduler. The designed LEA crypto-processor was verified by FPGA implementation. The LEA core synthesized with Xilinx ISE has 1,498 slice elements, and the estimated throughput is 216.24 Mbps with 135.15 MHz.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.9
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• pp.1652-1659
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• 2008

With the increase of huge amount of data in network systems, ultimate high-speed network has become an essential requirement. In such systems, the encryption and decryption process for security becomes a bottle-neck. For this reason, the need of hardware implementation is strongly emphasized. In this study, a mixed inner and outer round pipelining architecture is introduced to achieve high speed performance of ARIA hardware. Multiplexers are used to control the lengths of rounds for 3 types of keys. Merging of encryption module and key initialization module increases the area efficiency. The proposed hardware architecture is implemented on reconfigurable hardware, Xilinx Virtex2-pro. The hardware architecture in this study shows that the area occupied 6437 slices and 128 BRAMs, and it is translated to throughput of 24.6Gbit/s with a maximum clock frequency of 192.9MHz.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.1-12
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• 2021

As the demand for big data and big data-based artificial intelligence (AI) technology increases, the need for privacy preservations for sensitive information contained in big data and for high-speed encryption-based AI computation systems also increases. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a representative encryption technology that preserves the privacy of sensitive data. Therefore, FHE technology is being actively investigated primarily because, with FHE, decryption of the encrypted data is not required in the entire data flow. Data can be stored, transmitted, combined, and processed in an encrypted state. Moreover, FHE is based on an NP-hard problem (Lattice problem) that cannot be broken, even by a quantum computer, because of its high computational complexity and difficulty. FHE boasts a high-security level and therefore is receiving considerable attention as next-generation encryption technology. However, despite being able to process computations on encrypted data, the slow computation speed due to the high computational complexity of FHE technology is an obstacle to practical use. To address this problem, hardware technology that accelerates FHE operations is receiving extensive research attention. This article examines research trends associated with developments in hardware technology focused on accelerating the operations of representative FHE schemes. In addition, the detailed structures of hardware that accelerate the FHE operation are described.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.104-109
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• 2018

This paper presents a hardware design for the block encryption algorithm of ARIA which is used for standard in Korea. It presents a hardware-efficient design to increase the throughput for the ARIA algorithm using a high-speed pipeline architecture. We have used ROM for the S-box implementation. This approach aims to decrease the critical path delay of the encryption. In this paper, hardware was designed by VHDL, realized RTL level by Synplify which is synthesis tool and verified simulation by ModelSim. The ARIA algorithm is shown 68.3 MHz (Maximum operation frequency) to use Xilinx VertxE XCV Series device.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 1991.11a
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• pp.194-203
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• 1991

This paper presents the hardware development of a secure modem system for personal computers. This system consists of a data encryption system and an existing modem. The algorithm of LUCIFER-type with block size of 64-bit is used for data encryption and Diffie-Hellman method is also employed for generation of the encryption key. We implement the system in hardware using the DSP56001.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.839-845
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• 2018

Sensitive data is encrypted and stored as privacy policy is strengthened through frequent leakage of personal information. For this reason, the cryptographically owned encrypted data is a very important analysis from the viewpoint of digital forensics. Until now, the digital evidence collection procedure only considers imaging, so hardware specific information is not collected. If the encryption key is generated by information that is not left in the disk image, the encrypted data can not be decrypted. Recently, an application for performing encryption using hardware specific information has appeared. Therefore, in this paper, hardware specific information which does not remain in file form in auxiliary storage device is studied, and hardware specific information collection method is introduced.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.8
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• pp.67-74
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• 2008

A compact and high-performance AES(Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption/decryption processor is designed by applying various hardware sharing and optimization techniques. In order to achieve minimized hardware complexity, sharing the S-Boxes for round transformation with the key scheduler, as well as merging and reusing datapaths for encryption and decryption are utilized, thus the area of S-Boxes is reduced by 25%. Also, the S-Boxes which require the largest hardware in AES processor is designed by applying composite field arithmetic on $GF(((2^2)^2)^2)$, thus it further reduces the area of S-Boxes when compared to the design based on $GF(2^8)$ or $GF((2^4)^2)$. By optimizing the operation of the 64-bit round transformation and round key scheduling, the round transformation is processed in 3 clock cycles and an encryption of 128-bit data block is performed in 31 clock cycles. The designed AES processor has about 15,870 gates, and the estimated throughput is 412.9 Mbps at 100 MHz clock frequency.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.1332-1340
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• 2007

This paper describes an efficient hardware design of key wrap/unwrap algorithm for security layer of WiBro system. The key wrap/unwrap core (WB_KeyWuW) is based on AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm, and performs encryption/decryption of 128bit TEK (Traffic Encryption Key) with 128bit KEK (Key Encryption Key). In order to achieve m area-efficient implementation, two design techniques are considered; First, round transformation block within AES core is designed using a shared structure for encryption/decryption. Secondly, SubByte/InvSubByte blocks that require the largest hardware in AES core are implemented by using field transformation technique. As a result, the gate count of the WB_KeyWuW core is reduced by about 25% compared with conventional LUT (Lookup Table)-based design. The WB_KeyWuW con designed in Verilog-HDL has about 14,300 gates, and the estimated throughput is about $16{\sim}22-Mbps$ at 100-MHz@3.3V, thus the designed core can be used as an IP for the hardware design of WiBro security system.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.73-82
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• 2018

In this work, a hardware based cryptographic module for the cyber security of nuclear power plant is developed using a system engineering approach. Nuclear power plants are isolated from the Internet, but as shown in the case of Iran, Man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) could be a threat to the safety of the nuclear facilities. This FPGA-based module does not have an operating system and it provides protection as a firewall and mitigates the cyber threats. The encryption equipment consists of an encryption module, a decryption module, and interfaces for communication between modules and systems. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)-128, which is formally approved as top level by U.S. National Security Agency for cryptographic algorithms, is adopted. The development of the cyber security module is implemented in two main phases: reverse engineering and re-engineering. In the reverse engineering phase, the cyber security plan and system requirements are analyzed, and the AES algorithm is decomposed into functional units. In the re-engineering phase, we model the logical architecture using Vitech CORE9 software and simulate it with the Enhanced Functional Flow Block Diagram (EFFBD), which confirms the performance improvements of the hardware-based cryptographic module as compared to software based cryptography. Following this, the Hardware description language (HDL) code is developed and tested to verify the integrity of the code. Then, the developed code is implemented on the FPGA and connected to the personal computer through Recommended Standard (RS)-232 communication to perform validation of the developed component. For the future work, the developed FPGA based encryption equipment will be verified and validated in its expected operating environment by connecting it to the Advanced power reactor (APR)-1400 simulator.