Paper 2018/1074 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2018/1074 ↗
Yet Another Size Record for AES: A First-Order SCA Secure AES S-box Based on GF($2^8$) Multiplication
Abstract
It is well known that Canright’s tower field construction leads to a very small, unprotected AES S-box circuit by recursively embedding Galois Field operations into smaller fields. The current size record for the AES S-box by Boyar, Matthews and Peralta improves the original design with optimal subcomponents, while maintaining the overall tower-field structure. Similarly, all small state-of-the-art first-order SCA-secure AES S-box constructions are based on a tower field structure. We demonstrate that a smaller first-order secure AES S-box is achievable by representing the field inversion as a multiplication chain of length 4. Based on this representation, we showcase a very compact S-box circuit with only one GF($2^8$)-multiplier instance. Thereby, we introduce a new high-level representation of the AES S-box and set a new record for the smallest first-order secure implementation
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- Preprint.
- History
- 2018-11-09: last updated
- 2018-11-09: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2018/1074
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/1074,
author = {Felix Wegener and Amir Moradi},
title = {Yet Another Size Record for AES: A First-Order SCA Secure AES S-box Based on GF($2^8$) Multiplication},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2018/1074},
year = {2018},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1074}
}