FPGA implementation of authenticated encryption algorithm Minalpher

A new authenticated encryption algorithm Minalpher [1] submitted to CAESAR (Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness) [2] was implemented on various FPGA devices with straightforward and pipelined hardware architectures. Then, its performances in operating speed, hardware size, and power consumption were compared with a current standard algorithm AES-GCM [3] to show the advantages of Minalpher in compact and high-speed hardware implementations.