Energy-efficient and secure S-Box circuit using symmetric pass gate adiabatic logic

S. Dinesh Kumar, Himanshu Thapliyal, Azhar Mohammad, Vijay Singh, Kalyan S. Perumalla

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Abstract

Differential Power Analysis (DPA) attack is considered to be a main threat while designing cryptographic processors. In cryptographic algorithms like DES and AES, S-Box is used to indeterminate the relationship between the keys and the cipher texts. However, S-box is prone to DPA attack due to its high power consumption. In this paper, we are implementing an energy-efficient 8-bit S-Box circuit using our proposed Symmetric Pass Gate Adiabatic Logic (SPGAL). SPGAL is energy-efficient as compared to the existing DPA-resistant adiabatic and non-adiabatic logic families. SPGAL is energy-efficient due to reduction of non-adiabatic loss during the evaluate phase of the outputs. Further, the S-Box circuit implemented using SPGAL is resistant to DPA attacks. The results are verified through SPICE simulations in 180nm technology. SPICE simulations show that the SPGAL based S-Box circuit saves upto 92% and 67% of energy as compared to the conventional CMOS and Secured Quasi-Adiabatic Logic (SQAL) based S-Box circuit. From the simulation results, it is evident that the SPGAL based circuits are energy-efficient as compared to the existing DPA-resistant adiabatic and non-adiabatic logic families. In nutshell, SPGAL based gates can be used to build secure hardware for low power portable electronic devices and Internet-of-Things (IoT) based electronic devices.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2016
Pages308-313
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467390385
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2 2016
Event15th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2016 - Pittsburgh, United States
Duration: Jul 11 2016Jul 13 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI
Volume2016-September
ISSN (Print)2159-3469
ISSN (Electronic)2159-3477

Conference

Conference15th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh
Period7/11/167/13/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Adiabatic logic
  • Differential Power Analysis (DPA)
  • Low-power hardware
  • S-Box
  • Symmetric Pass Gate Adiabatic Logic (SPGAL)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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