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A Hardware in the Loop Benchmark Suite to Evaluate NIST LWC Ciphers on Microcontrollers

  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) started the standardization process for lightweight cryptography algorithms in 2018. By the end of the first round, 32 submissions have been selected as 2nd round candidates. NIST allowed designers of 2nd round submissions to provide small updates on both their specifications and implementation packages. In this work, we introduce a benchmarking framework for evaluating the performance of NIST Lightweight Cryptography (LWC) candidates on embedded platforms. We show the features and application of the framework and explain its design rationale. Moreover, we provide information on how we aim to present up-to-date performance figures throughout the NIST LWC competition. In this paper, we present an excerpt of our software benchmarking results regarding speed and memory requirements of selected ciphers. All up-to-date results, including benchmarking different test cases for multiple variants of each 2nd round algorithm on five different microcontrollers, are periodically published to a public website. While initially only the reference implementations were available, the ability of automatically testing the performance of the candidate algorithms on multiple platforms becomes especially relevant as more optimized implementations are developed. Finally, we show how the framework can be extended in different directions: support for more target platforms can be easily added, different kinds of algorithms can be tested, and other test metrics can be acquired. The focus of this paper should rather lay on the framework design and testing methodology than on the current results, especially for reference code.

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Author:Sebastian Renner, Enrico Pozzobon, Jürgen MottokORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61078-4_28
Parent Title (English):Information and Communications Security: 22nd International Conference, ICICS 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 24-26, 2020, Proceedings
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Cham
Editor:Weizhi Meng
Document Type:conference proceeding (article)
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2020
Release Date:2021/02/17
Tag:Benchmarking; Embedded systems; Lightweight cryptography; RISC-V
First Page:495
Last Page:509
Institutes:Fakultät Elektro- und Informationstechnik
Fakultät Elektro- und Informationstechnik / Laboratory for Safe and Secure Systems (LAS3)
Begutachtungsstatus:peer-reviewed
research focus:Information und Kommunikation
Licence (German):Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG