Title | ||
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On the efficiency of software implementations of lightweight block ciphers from the perspective of programming languages |
Abstract | ||
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Lightweight block ciphers are primarily designed for resource constrained devices. However, due to service requirements of large-scale IoT networks and systems, the need for efficient software implementations cannot be ruled out. A number of studies have compared software implementations of different lightweight block ciphers on a specific platform but to the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to benchmark various software implementations of a single lightweight block cipher across different programming languages and platforms in the cloud architecture. In this paper, we defined six lookup-table based software implementations for lightweight block ciphers with their characteristics ranging from memory to throughput optimized variants. We carried out a thorough analysis of the two costs associated with each implementation (memory and operations) and discussed possible trade-offs in detail. We coded all six types of implementations for three key settings (64, 80, 128 bits) of LED (a lightweight block cipher) in four programming languages (Java, C#, C++, Python). We highlighted the impact of choice relating to implementation type, programming language, and platform by benchmarking the seventy-two implementations for throughput and software efficiency on 32 & 64-bit platforms for two major operating systems (Windows & Linux) on Amazon Web Services Cloud. The results showed that these choices can affect the efficiency of a cryptographic primitive by a factor as high as 400. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2020 | 10.1016/j.future.2019.09.058 | Future Generation Computer Systems |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Lightweight block-cipher,Software implementation,Lookup table,LED,IoT,AWS EC2 | Programming language,Block cipher,Computer science,Implementation,Cryptographic primitive,Software,Throughput,Java,Python (programming language),Cloud computing | Journal |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
104 | 0167-739X | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Abdur Rehman Raza | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
Khawir Mahmood | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
M. Faisal Amjad | 3 | 21 | 8.90 |
Haider Abbas | 4 | 391 | 43.88 |
Mehreen Afzal | 5 | 15 | 4.86 |