Title
Digital Implementation of an Improved LTE Stream Cipher Snow-3G Based on Hyperchaotic PRNG.
Abstract
SNOW-3G is a stream cipher used by the 3GPP standards as the core part of the confidentiality and integrity algorithms for UMTS and LTE networks. This paper proposes an enhancement of the regular SNOW-3G ciphering algorithm based on HC-PRNG. The proposed cipher scheme is based on hyperchaotic generator which is used as an additional layer to the SNOW-3G architecture to improve the randomness of its output keystream. The objective of this work is to achieve a high security strength of the regular SNOW-3G algorithm while maintaining its standardized properties. The originality of this new scheme is that it provides a good trade-off between good randomness properties, performance, and hardware resources. Numerical simulations, hardware digital implementation, and experimental results using Xilinx FPGA Virtex technology have demonstrated the feasibility and the efficiency of our secure solution while promising technique can be applied to secure the new generation mobile standards. Thorough analysis of statistical randomness is carried out demonstrating the improved statistical randomness properties of the new scheme compared to the standard SNOW-3G, while preserving its resistance against cryptanalytic attacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1155/2017/5746976
SECURITY AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Field
DocType
Volume
Keystream,Cipher,Statistical randomness,Computer security,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Stream cipher,Virtex,Randomness,Pseudorandom number generator
Journal
2017
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1939-0114
1
0.38
References 
Authors
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahdi Madani111.73
Ilyas Benkhaddra210.38
Camel Tanougast312225.44
Salim Chitroub410517.05
Loic Sieler5133.34