Dynamically reconfigurable encryption and decryption system design for the internet of things information security

Abstract

Information security is the foundation for building trust between the Internet of Things (IoT) and its users. Due to the sharp increase of information quantity and the limitation of hardware resources, it is difficult to maintain the high performance of hardware equipment, while also enhancing information security. To solve the problem of high consumption and low flexibility of multiple cryptographic algorithms hardware implementation, we have designed the Dynamically Reconfigurable Encryption and Decryption System, which is based on Field Programmable Gate Array. Considering the functional requirements, the cryptographic algorithm reconfigurable module files stored in External Memory could be configured dynamically into the assigned on-chip Reconfigurable Partition, supported by Core Controller and the Reconfiguration Control Platform. The experiment results show that, compared with the Static Encryption and Decryption System, our design reduces the logic resources by more than 30% and completes the algorithm swapping at the configuration speed of 15,759.51 Bytes/ms. It indicates that our design could reduce logic resources consumption and improve utilization efficiency and system flexibility.