Paper 2019/209

SoK: Peigen -- a Platform for Evaluation, Implementation, and Generation of S-boxes

Zhenzhen Bao, Jian Guo, San Ling, and Yu Sasaki

Abstract

In this paper, a platform named PEIGEN is presented to evaluate security, find efficient software/hardware implementations, and generate cryptographic S-boxes. Continuously developed for decades, S-boxes are constantly evolving in terms of the design criteria for both security requirements and software/hardware performances. PEIGEN is aimed to be a platform covering a comprehensive check-list of design criteria of S-boxes appearing in the literature. To do so, the security requirements are first intensively surveyed, existing tools of S-boxes are then comprehensively compared, and finally our platform PEIGEN is presented. The survey part is aimed to be a systematic reference for the theoretical study of S-boxes. The platform is aimed to be an assistant tool for the experimental study and practical use of S-boxes. PEIGEN not only integrates most of the features in existing tools, but also equips with functionalities to evaluate new security-related properties, improves the efficiency of the search algorithms for optimized implementations in several aspects. With the help of this powerful platform, many interesting observations are made in-between the security notations, as well as on the S-boxes used in the existing symmetric-key cryptographic primitives. PEIGEN will become an open platform and welcomes contributions from all parties to help the community to facilitate the research and use of S-boxes.

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Publication info
Published by the IACR in TOSC 2019 ISSUE 1
Keywords
S-boxSurveyDesign criteriaImplementation criteriaNew platform
Contact author(s)
zzbao @ ntu edu sg
guojian @ ntu edu sg
lingsan @ ntu edu sg
yu339 @ yahoo co jp
sasaki yu @ lab ntt co jp
History
2019-02-27: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2019/209
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2019/209,
      author = {Zhenzhen Bao and Jian Guo and San Ling and Yu Sasaki},
      title = {SoK: Peigen -- a Platform for Evaluation, Implementation, and Generation of S-boxes},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2019/209},
      year = {2019},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/209}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/209}
}
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