H.B. Diab and M.A. Itani (Lebanon)
Cryptography, reconfigurable systems, performance analysis, MARS, information security.
This paper presents an emerging reconfigurable hardware that delivers flexible high performance for cryptographic algorithms. MorphoSys, a reconfigurable architecture that sustains implementations that can yield into equally or even better performance results than custom-hardware and yet preserves all the flexibility of general-purpose processors. With today's great demand for secure communications systems, networks and the Internet, there is a growing demand for real-time implementation of cryptographic algorithms. As a case study, this paper presents the mapping and performance analysis for one of the five AES finalists cryptographic algorithms: MARS. Being a complex and computationally demanding algorithm, it is well chosen to be mapped in order to test and evaluate on the MorphoSys dynamic reconfigurable computer (RC) system.
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