CRIPTOCEL: design of cellular automata based cipher schemes

Author

Franti, Eduard ; Goschin, Sergiu ; Dascalu, Monica ; Catrina, Nicolae ; Dobrin, Madalina

Author_Institution

IMT Bucharest, Romania

Volume

2

fYear

2004

Firstpage

1103

Abstract

The paper presents CRIPTOCEL, a complex project that is aimed at the development and design of cellular-automata based cryptographic systems. Cryptography is a field of major scientific and technical interest nowadays, mainly because of the increased security demands of different communication systems. The novelty and the main interest in the CRIPTOCEL project is the orientation towards a hardware implementation. A special software has been developed for the analysis of different encryption/decryption strategies with cellular automata. Among the various strategies and algorithms studied, the best were selected for hardware implementation. The main issues of cellular automata hardware design are also discussed for the selected cryptosystems. The result is a VLSI project for a fast, cheap, efficient and versatile cryptographic chip.

Keywords

VLSI; cellular automata; cryptography; hardware-software codesign; integrated circuit design; telecommunication security; VLSI project; cellular automata; cipher schemes; communication system security; cryptographic chip; cryptographic systems; decryption; hardware implementation; hardware-software codesign; Communication system security; Communication systems; Cryptography; Data communication; Data security; Encoding; Hardware; Internet; Military computing; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Circuits and Systems, 2004. ICCCAS 2004. 2004 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCAS.2004.1346369

Filename

1346369