Paper 2020/836

Assembly or Optimized C for Lightweight Cryptography on RISC-V?

Fabio Campos, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
Lars Jellema, Radboud University Nijmegen
Mauk Lemmen, Radboud University Nijmegen
Lars Müller, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
Amber Sprenkels, Radboud University Nijmegen
Benoit Viguier, Radboud University Nijmegen
Abstract

A major challenge when applying cryptography on constrained environments is the trade-off between performance and security. In this work, we analyzed different strategies for the optimization of several candidates of NIST's lightweight cryptography standardization project on a RISC-V architecture. In particular, we studied the general impact of optimizing symmetric-key algorithms in assembly and in plain C. Furthermore, we present optimized implementations, achieving a speed-up of up to 81% over available implementations, and discuss general implementation strategies.

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Implementation
Publication info
Published elsewhere. CANS 2020: Cryptology and Network Security
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-65411-5_26
Keywords
implementation RISC-V lightweight cryptography software optimization NIST
Contact author(s)
campos @ sopmac de
lars jellema @ gmail com
M Lemmen @ student ru nl
mail @ lars-mueller com
amber @ electricdusk com
b viguier @ cs ru nl
History
2022-12-16: revised
2020-07-12: received
See all versions
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2020/836
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/836,
      author = {Fabio Campos and Lars Jellema and Mauk Lemmen and Lars Müller and Amber Sprenkels and Benoit Viguier},
      title = {Assembly or Optimized C for Lightweight Cryptography on RISC-V?},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2020/836},
      year = {2020},
      doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-65411-5_26},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/836}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/836}
}
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