abstract

• This paper presents the hardware implementation of a cryptographic algorithm using a matrix approach, named ESCA (encryption by synchronization of cellular automata). The ESCA system is a symmetric key algorithm, which is based on the rule-90 cellular automaton to implement all their components. In the hardware implementation of the ESCA system was used the soft processor core Microblaze in a Virtex-5 VC5VLX110T FPGA. With this embedded system we can have a reconfigurable encryption system that allows to the user select among different configurations without the need to program the FPGA every time. With the different options to configure the ESCA system, we may increase the security or have a customized system for a faster performance. With this implementation we carry out the encryption of grayscale and RGB color images. In addition, a sparse matrix format was implemented to reduce the latency, and to prove the security of the algorithm, different tests were applied exhibiting good results. © 2014 IEEE.

authors

• Mejía Carlos Marcela
• Murguía Ibarra José Salomé
• Ramírez Torres Marco Tulio

publication date

• 2014-01-01

published in

• 2014 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs, ReConFig 2014  Proceedings

keywords

• cellular automata; Encryption; FPGA; Microblaze Algorithms; Cellular automata; Computer hardware; Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA); Hardware; Mobile security; Reconfigurable architectures; Reconfigurable hardware; Cryptographic algorithms; FPGA implementations; Hardware implementations; Microblaze; Reconfigurable images; Soft processor cores; Sparse matrix formats; Symmetric key algorithms; Cryptography

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/ReConFig.2014.7032524

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