CIPHER BLOCK BASED AUTHENTICATION MODULE: A HARDWARE DESIGN PERSPECTIVE

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 163-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARRIS E. MICHAIL ◽  
DIMITRIOS SCHINIANAKIS ◽  
COSTAS E. GOUTIS ◽  
ATHANASIOS P. KAKAROUNTAS ◽  
GEORGIOS SELIMIS
Keyword(s):  
Block Cipher ◽  
Hardware Design ◽  
Hash Functions ◽  
Message Authentication ◽  
Authentication Codes ◽  
Data Packets ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
Encryption Algorithms ◽  
Block Based

Message Authentication Codes (MACs) are widely used in order to authenticate data packets, which are transmitted thought networks. Typically MACs are implemented using modules like hash functions and in conjunction with encryption algorithms (like Block Ciphers), which are used to encrypt the transmitted data. However NIST in May 2005 issued a standard, addressing certain applications and their needs, defining a way to implement MACs through FIPS-approved and secure block cipher algorithms. In this paper the best performing implementation of the CMAC standard is presented, in terms of throughput, along with an efficient AES design and implementation.

A Method for Security Estimation of the Spn-Based Block Cipher Against Related-Key Attacks

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmytro Kaidalov ◽  
Roman Oliynykov ◽  
Oleksandr Kazymyrov
Keyword(s):  
Block Cipher ◽  
Block Ciphers ◽  
Message Authentication ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
Symmetric Encryption ◽  
Authentication Codes ◽  
Cryptographic Primitives ◽  
Encryption Algorithms ◽  
Brute Force Attack ◽  
Symmetric Block

Abstract Symmetric block ciphers are the most widely used cryptographic primitives. In addition to providing privacy, block ciphers are used as basic components in the construction of hash functions, message authentication codes, pseudorandom number generators, as a part of various cryptographic protocols, etc. Nowadays the most popular block cipher is AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). It is used as a standard of symmetric encryption in many countries. Several years ago it was found a theoretical attack exploiting the AES key expansion algorithm that allows reducing significantly the complexity comparing to the brute force attack. This article presents an advanced method of finding the number of active substitutions that helps to estimate the security of encryption algorithms against related-key attacks. The method was applied to a prospective block cipher, which is a candidate for the Ukrainian standard

Data Integrity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith M. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Hash Function ◽  
Hash Functions ◽  
Data Integrity ◽  
Message Authentication ◽  
Authenticated Encryption ◽  
Authentication Codes ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Function Design ◽  
Security Properties ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter discusses cryptographic mechanisms for providing data integrity. We begin by identifying different levels of data integrity that can be provided. We then look in detail at hash functions, explaining the different security properties that they have, as well as presenting several different applications of a hash function. We then look at hash function design and illustrate this by discussing the hash function SHA-3. Next, we discuss message authentication codes (MACs), presenting a basic model and discussing basic properties. We compare two different MAC constructions, CBC-MAC and HMAC. Finally, we consider different ways of using MACs together with encryption. We focus on authenticated encryption modes, and illustrate these by describing Galois Counter mode.

Hash Functions and Their Applications

2018 ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Kannan Balasubramanian
Keyword(s):  
Hash Function ◽  
Hash Functions ◽  
Digital Signatures ◽  
Message Authentication ◽  
Authenticated Encryption ◽  
Authentication Codes ◽  
Message Authentication Codes ◽  
Message Digest ◽  
Cryptographic Hash Functions

Cryptographic Hash Functions are used to achieve a number of Security goals like Message Authentication, Message Integrity, and are also used to implement Digital Signatures (Non-repudiation), and Entity Authentication. This chapter discusses the construction of hash functions and the various attacks on the Hash functions. The Message Authentication Codes are similar to the Hash functions except that they require a key for producing the message digest or hash. Authenticated Encryption is a scheme that combines hashing and Encryption. The Various types of hash functions like one-way hash function, Collision Resistant hash function and Universal hash functions are also discussed in this chapter.

scholarly journals Information-Theoretically Secure Data Origin Authentication with Quantum and Classical Resources

Cryptography ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Georgios M. Nikolopoulos ◽  
Marc Fischlin
Keyword(s):  
Broad Class ◽  
Hash Functions ◽  
Message Authentication ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Authentication Codes ◽  
Message Authentication Codes ◽  
Secure Data ◽  
Authentication Schemes ◽  
Better Than

In conventional cryptography, information-theoretically secure message authentication can be achieved by means of universal hash functions, and requires that the two legitimate users share a random secret key, which is at least twice as long as the tag. We address the question of whether quantum resources can offer any advantage over classical unconditionally secure message authentication codes. It is shown that a broad class of symmetric prepare-and-measure quantum message-authentication schemes cannot do better than their classical counterparts.

scholarly journals New Constructions of MACs from (Tweakable) Block Ciphers

2017 ◽  
pp. 27-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Cogliati ◽  
Jooyoung Lee ◽  
Yannick Seurin
Keyword(s):  
Block Cipher ◽  
Block Ciphers ◽  
Message Authentication ◽  
Authentication Codes ◽  
Ideal Cipher ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Tweakable Block Cipher ◽  
Ideal Cipher Model ◽  
Provably Secure ◽  
The Ideal

We propose new constructions of Message Authentication Codes (MACs) from tweakable or conventional block ciphers. Our new schemes are either stateless and deterministic, nonce-based, or randomized, and provably secure either in the standard model for tweakable block cipher-based ones, or in the ideal cipher model for block cipher-based ones. All our constructions are very efficient, requiring only one call to the underlying (tweakable) block cipher in addition to universally hashing the message. Moreover, the security bounds we obtain are quite strong: they are beyond the birthday bound, and nonce-based/randomized variants provide graceful security degradation in case of misuse, i.e., the security bound degrades linearly with the maximal number of repetitions of nonces/random values.

High Speed FPGA Implementation of Cryptographic KECCAK Hash Function Crypto-Processor

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 1650026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma Kahri ◽  
Hassen Mestiri ◽  
Belgacem Bouallegue ◽  
Mohsen Machhout
Keyword(s):  
Hash Function ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Hash Functions ◽  
Message Authentication ◽  
Authentication Codes ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Security Applications ◽  
Hash Algorithm ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cryptographic Hash Functions

Cryptographic hash functions are at the heart of many information security applications like message authentication codes (MACs), digital signatures and other forms of authentication. One of the methods to ensure information integrity is the use of hash functions, which generates a stream of bytes (hash) that must be unique. But most functions can no longer prevent malicious attacks and ensure that the information have just a hash. Because of the weakening of the widely used SHA-1 hash algorithm and concerns over the similarly-structured algorithms of the SHA-2 family, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has initiated the SHA-3 contest in order to select a suitable drop-in replacement. KECCAK hash function has been submitted to SHA-3 competition and it belongs to the final five candidate functions. In this paper, we present the implementation details of the hash function’s KECCAK algorithm, moreover, the proposed KECCAK design has been implemented on XILINX FPGAs. Its area, frequency, throughput and efficiency have been derived and compared and it is shown that the proposed design allows a trade-off between the maximum frequency and the area implementation.

Schemes for Digital Signatures

2012 ◽  
pp. 20-25
Keyword(s):  
Hash Functions ◽  
Digital Signatures ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bulletin Board ◽  
Message Authentication ◽  
Authentication Codes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Message Authentication Codes ◽  
Other Hand

Integrity is the property of information concerning protection against its unauthorized modifications and forgeries. This chapter discusses bulletin board (BB), hash functions, MACs (Message Authentication Codes) and digital signatures, as schemes for maintaining integrity of data. BBs protect data by simply disclosing them to the public, i.e. an entity cannot modify them without being watched by others. Hash functions, Macs, and digital signatures protect data by detecting illegitimate modifications while attaching values to the data. Namely, when an entity illegitimately modifies the data, the modified results become inconsistent with the attached values. When hash functions, MACs and digital signatures are compared regarding the ability to convince entities that the data are authorized ones, hash functions cannot enable entities to convince others, and by MACs, entities can convince others only when relevant secrets are properly protected. On the other hand, digital signatures enable anyone to convince others without constraints.

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