High Throughput/Gate FN-based Hardware Architectures for AES-OTR

This paper presents high throughput/gates Feistel network (FN)-based AES-OTR hardware architectures. AES-OTR is an authenticated encryption (AE) scheme as a block cipher mode of operation using AES. While AES-OTR is one of the most theoretically efficient AEs using AES and has superior features, its practical efficiency in hardware is unclear due to no known reports of its hardware implementation. In this paper, we present efficient AES-OTR hardware architectures. In contrast to conventional AE architectures, our architecture forms the 2-round FN of OTR, which makes it easy to integrate the peripheral into hardware for OTR operations. The proposed architectures had 2.4 and 13.5 times higher throughput/gates than the de facto standard AE (i.e., AES-GCM) core on FPGA and ASIC, respectively, through logic syntheses.