High-speed Hardware Design for the Twofish Encryption Algorithm

Twofish is a 128-bit block cipher that accepts a variable-length key up to 256 bits. The cipher is a 16­round Feistel network with a bijective F function made up of four key-dependent 8-by-8-bit S-boxes, a fixed 4­by-4 maximum distance separable matrix over Galois Field$(GF (2^8)$, a pseudo-Hadamard transform, bitwise rotations, and a carefully designed key schedule. In this paper, the Twofish is modeled in VHDL and simulated. Hardware implementation gives much better performance than software-based approaches.