Paper Title
CFA Based Pipelined S-Box For AES Algorithm
Abstract
The increasing need for protecting data communication in computer networks has led to development of several
cryptography algorithms. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a computer security standard issued by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of US government intended for protecting electronic data. The AES
cryptography algorithm is used to encrypt/decrypt blocks of 128 bits and is capable of using cipher keys of 128, 196 or 256
bits wide (AES128, AES196, and AES256).
In this paper, CFA based S-Box operation with the help of combinational logic circuits is presented. In addition to this,
pipelining concept is introduced and 2 & 4-stage pipelining with CFA method is done. The design has been coded using
Verilog HDL. All the results are synthesized and simulated using Xilinx and ModelSim respectively. The results indicate
that when number of pipelined stages increases, system performance improves. Further there is a reduction in the gate delay
as pipeline stages increases. It is also seen that the area of the device increases with the pipeline stages increases. Latency
would be higher for the addition of pipelined registers.
Keywords — AES; CFA; pipelining;LUTs; FPGAs; HDL.