Very compact hardware implementations of the blockcipher CLEFIA

Abstract

The 128-bit blockcipher CLEFIA is known to be highly efficient in hardware implementations. This paper proposes very compact hardware implementations of CLEFIA-128. Our implementations are based on novel serialized architectures in the data processing block. Three types of hardware architectures are implemented and synthesized using a 0.13 μm standard cell library. In the smallest implementation, the area requirements are only 2,488 GE, which are about half of the previous smallest implementation as far as we know. Furthermore, only additional 116 GE enable to support decryption. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.