Strengthened 32‐bit AES implementation: Architectural error correction configuration with a new voting scheme

Abstract Digital data transmission is day by day more vulnerable to both malicious and natural faults. With an aim to assure reliability, security and privacy in communication, a low‐cost fault resilient architecture for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is proposed. In order not to degrade the rel...

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Main Authors: Saeideh Sheikhpur, Mahdi Taheri, Mohammad Saeed Ansari, Ali Mahani
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Published: Wiley 2021-11-01
Series:IET Computers & Digital Techniques
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/cdt2.12031
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Ali Mahani
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description Abstract Digital data transmission is day by day more vulnerable to both malicious and natural faults. With an aim to assure reliability, security and privacy in communication, a low‐cost fault resilient architecture for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is proposed. In order not to degrade the reliability of our AES architecture, the reliability of voter is very important, for which reason we have introduced a novel voting scheme include a majority voter (named TMR voter) and an error barrier element (named DMR voter). In this paper, a reliable and secure 32‐bit data‐path AES implementation based on our robust fault resilient approach is developed. We illustrate that the proposed architecture can tolerate up to triple‐bit (byte) simultaneous faults at each pipeline stage’s logic and verify our claim through extensive error simulations. Error simulation results also show that our architecture achieves close to 100% fault‐masking capability for multiple‐bit (byte) faults. Finally, it is shown that the Application‐Specific Integrated Circuit implementation of the fault‐tolerant architectures using the composite field‐based S‐box, CFB‐AES, and ROM‐based S‐box, RB‐AES allows better area usage, throughput and fault resilience trade‐off compared to their counterparts. So, it provides the most appropriate features to be used in highly‐secure resource‐constraint applications.
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spelling doaj-art-1f38511f7c97439181e00dfc41aa44922025-02-03T01:29:24ZengWileyIET Computers & Digital Techniques1751-86011751-861X2021-11-0115639540810.1049/cdt2.12031Strengthened 32‐bit AES implementation: Architectural error correction configuration with a new voting schemeSaeideh Sheikhpur0Mahdi Taheri1Mohammad Saeed Ansari2Ali Mahani3Reliable and Smart Systems (RSS) Lab., Department of Electrical Engineering Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman Kerman IranReliable and Smart Systems (RSS) Lab., Department of Electrical Engineering Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman Kerman IranEideticom Computational Storage Calgary Alberta CanadaReliable and Smart Systems (RSS) Lab., Department of Electrical Engineering Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman Kerman IranAbstract Digital data transmission is day by day more vulnerable to both malicious and natural faults. With an aim to assure reliability, security and privacy in communication, a low‐cost fault resilient architecture for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is proposed. In order not to degrade the reliability of our AES architecture, the reliability of voter is very important, for which reason we have introduced a novel voting scheme include a majority voter (named TMR voter) and an error barrier element (named DMR voter). In this paper, a reliable and secure 32‐bit data‐path AES implementation based on our robust fault resilient approach is developed. We illustrate that the proposed architecture can tolerate up to triple‐bit (byte) simultaneous faults at each pipeline stage’s logic and verify our claim through extensive error simulations. Error simulation results also show that our architecture achieves close to 100% fault‐masking capability for multiple‐bit (byte) faults. Finally, it is shown that the Application‐Specific Integrated Circuit implementation of the fault‐tolerant architectures using the composite field‐based S‐box, CFB‐AES, and ROM‐based S‐box, RB‐AES allows better area usage, throughput and fault resilience trade‐off compared to their counterparts. So, it provides the most appropriate features to be used in highly‐secure resource‐constraint applications.https://doi.org/10.1049/cdt2.12031cryptographyfield programmable gate arraysfault toleranceerror correctiontelecommunication securitydata communication
spellingShingle Saeideh Sheikhpur
Mahdi Taheri
Mohammad Saeed Ansari
Ali Mahani
Strengthened 32‐bit AES implementation: Architectural error correction configuration with a new voting scheme
IET Computers & Digital Techniques
cryptography
field programmable gate arrays
fault tolerance
error correction
telecommunication security
data communication
title Strengthened 32‐bit AES implementation: Architectural error correction configuration with a new voting scheme
title_full Strengthened 32‐bit AES implementation: Architectural error correction configuration with a new voting scheme
title_fullStr Strengthened 32‐bit AES implementation: Architectural error correction configuration with a new voting scheme
title_full_unstemmed Strengthened 32‐bit AES implementation: Architectural error correction configuration with a new voting scheme
title_short Strengthened 32‐bit AES implementation: Architectural error correction configuration with a new voting scheme
title_sort strengthened 32 bit aes implementation architectural error correction configuration with a new voting scheme
topic cryptography
field programmable gate arrays
fault tolerance
error correction
telecommunication security
data communication
url https://doi.org/10.1049/cdt2.12031
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