Lightweight and compact solutions for secure reconfiguration of FPGAs

Author

Abdellatif, Karim M. ; Chotin-Avot, Roselyne ; Mehrez, H.

Author_Institution

LIP6-SoC Lab., Univ. of Paris VI, Paris, France

fYear

2013

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Reconfiguration of FPGAs is becoming increasingly popular particularly in networking applications. In order to protect FPGA designs against attacks, secure reconfiguration must be performed. This paper introduces low cost solutions for protecting FPGA designs. This is achieved by implementing low cost hardware architectures of authenticated encryption (AES-CCM, AES-GCM, and PRESENT-GCM) in the static part of the FPGA to perform the decryption and the authentication of bitstreams. Presented architectures were evaluated by using 90 and 130 nm technologies.

Keywords

computer architecture; cryptography; field programmable gate arrays; AES-CCM; AES-GCM; FPGA design protection; PRESENT-GCM; authenticated encryption; bitstream authentication; decryption; hardware architecture evaluation; networking applications; secure FPGA reconfiguration; Authentication; Computer architecture; Encryption; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; FPGAs; authenticated encryption (AE); secure reconfiguration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2078-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ReConFig.2013.6732304

Filename

6732304