Cryptography with asynchronous logic automata

  • Authors:
  • Peter Schmidt-Nielsen;Kailiang Chen;Jonathan Bachrach;Scott Greenwald;Forrest Green;Neil Gershenfeld

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, Cambridge, MA;MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, Cambridge, MA;MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, Cambridge, MA;MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, Cambridge, MA;MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, Cambridge, MA;MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Cryptography and Security
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We introduce the use of asynchronous logic automata (ALA) for cryptography. ALA aligns the descriptions of hardware and software for portability, programmability, and scalability. An implementation of the A5/1 stream cipher is provided as a design example in a concise hardware description language, Snap, and we discuss a power- and timing-balanced cell design.