Paper 2018/708
Masking the Lightweight Authenticated Ciphers ACORN and Ascon in Software
Alexandre Adomnicai, Jacques J. A. Fournier, and Laurent Masson
Abstract
The ongoing CAESAR competition aims at finding authenticated encryption schemes that offer advantages over AES-GCM for several use-cases, including lightweight applications. ACORN and Ascon are the two finalists for this profile. Our paper compares these two candidates according to their resilience against differential power analysis and their ability to integrate countermeasures against such attacks. Especially, we focus on software implementations and provide benchmarks for several security levels on an ARM Cortex-M3 embedded microprocessor.
Note: Fixed some typos.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Minor revision. BalkanCryptSec 2018
- Keywords
- ACORNAsconDPAMasking
- Contact author(s)
- alex adomnicai @ gmail com
- History
- 2019-03-20: last of 5 revisions
- 2018-08-01: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2018/708
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/708,
author = {Alexandre Adomnicai and Jacques J. A. Fournier and Laurent Masson},
title = {Masking the Lightweight Authenticated Ciphers {ACORN} and Ascon in Software},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2018/708},
year = {2018},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/708}
}