• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.777-779
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• 2014

The LEA(Lightweight Encryption Algorithm) is a 128-bit high-speed/lightweight block cipher algorithm developed by National Security Research Institute(NSRI) in 2012. The LEA encrypts plain text of 128-bit using cipher key of 128/192/256-bit, and produces cipher text of 128-bit, and vice versa. To reduce hardware complexity, we propose an efficient architecture which shares hardware resources for encryption and decryption in round transformation block. Hardware sharing technique for key scheduler was also devised to achieve area-efficient and low-power implementation. The designed LEA cryptographic processor was verified by using FPGA implementation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1117-1127
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• 2014

Differential Fault Analysis(DFA) is widely known for one of the most powerful method for analyzing block cipher. it is applicable to block cipher such as DES, AES, ARIA, SEED, and lightweight block cipher such as PRESENT, HIGHT. In this paper, we introduce a differential fault analysis on the lightweight block cipher LEA for the first time. we use 300 chosen fault injection ciphertexts to recover 128-bit master key. As a result of our attack, we found a full master key within an average of 40 minutes on a standard PC environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1929-1934
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• 2017

Lightweight block cipher (Lightweight Encryption Algorithm, LEA), is the most promising block cipher algorithm due to its efficient implementation feature and high security level. The LEA block cipher is widely used in real-field applications and there are many efforts to enhance the performance of LEA in terms of execution timing to achieve the high availability under any circumstances. In this paper, we enhance the performance of LEA block cipher, particularly on ARMv8 processors. The LEA implementation is optimized by using new SIMD instructions namely NEON engine and 24 LEA encryption operations are simultaneously performed in parallel way. In order to reduce the number of memory access, we utilized the all NEON registers to retain the intermediate results. Finally, we evaluated the performance of the LEA implementation, and the proposed implementations on Apple A7 and Apple A9 achieved the 2.4 cycles/byte and 2.2 cycles/byte, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1276-1284
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• 2017

Lightweight Encryption Algorithm (LEA) that was standardized as a lightweight block cipher was implemented with 8-bit data path, and the vulnerability of LEA encryption processor to correlation power analysis (CPA) attack was analyzed. The CPA used in this paper detects correct round keys by analyzing correlation coefficient between the Hamming distance of the computed data by applying hypothesized keys and the power dissipated in LEA crypto-processor. As a result of CPA attack, correct round keys were detected, which have maximum correlation coefficients of 0.6937, 0.5507, and this experimental result shows that block cipher LEA is vulnerable to power analysis attacks. A masking method based on TRNG was proposed as a countermeasure to CPA attack. By applying masking method that adds random values obtained from TRNG to the intermediate data of encryption, incorrect round keys having maximum correlation coefficients of 0.1293, 0.1190 were analyzed. It means that the proposed masking method is an effective countermeasure to CPA attack.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.1023-1032
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• 2017

When a cryptographic device such as smart card performs an encryption for a plain text, an attacker can extract the secret key in it using side channel information. Especially, many researches found some weaknesses for side channel attack on the lightweight block cipher LEA designed to apply in IoT environments. In this paper, we survey several masking countermeasures to defeat the side channel attack and propose a novel masking conversion method. Even though the proposed Arithmetic-to-Boolean masking conversion method requires storage memory of 256 bytes, it can improve the LEA encryption speed up to 17 percentage compared to the case adopted the previous masking method.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.252-256
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• 2014

Traditional block cipher Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is widely used in the field of network security, but it has high overhead on each operation. In the 15th international workshop on information security applications, a novel lightweight and low-power encryption algorithm named low-power encryption algorithm (LEA) was released. This algorithm has certain useful features for hardware and software implementations, that is, simple addition, rotation, exclusive-or (ARX) operations, non-Substitute-BOX architecture, and 32-bit word size. In this study, we further improve the LEA encryptions for cloud computing. The Web-based implementations include JavaScript and assembly codes. Unlike normal implementation, JavaScript does not support unsigned integer and rotation operations; therefore, we present several techniques for resolving this issue. Furthermore, the proposed method yields a speed-optimized result and shows high performance enhancements. Each implementation is tested using various Web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox, and on various devices including personal computers and mobile devices. These results extend the use of LEA encryption to any circumstance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.401-403
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• 2015

This paper describes an efficient hardware design of 128-bit block cipher algorithm LEA(lightweight encryption algorithm). In order to achieve area-efficient and low-power implementation, round block and key scheduler block are optimized to share hardware resources for encryption and decryption. The key scheduler register is modified to reduce clock cycles required for key scheduling, which results in improved encryption/decryption performance. FPGA synthesis results of the LEA processor show that it has 2,364 slices, and the estimated performance for the master key of 128/192/256-bit at 113 MHz clock frequency is about 181/162/109 Mbps, respectively.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.101-106
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• 2021

Quantum algorithms and quantum computers can break the security of many of the ciphers we currently use. If Grover's algorithm is applied to a symmetric key cipher with n-bit security level, the security level can be lowered to (n/2)-bit. In order to apply Grover's algorithm, it is most important to optimize the target cipher as a quantum circuit because the symmetric key cipher must be implemented as a quantum circuit in the oracle function. Accordingly, researches on implementing AES(Advanced Encryption Standard) or lightweight block ciphers as quantum circuits have been actively conducted in recent years. In this paper, korean lightweight block cipher LEA was optimized and implemented as a quantum circuit. Compared to the previous LEA quantum circuit implementation, quantum gates were used more, but qubits were drastically reduced, and performance evaluation was performed for this tradeoff problem. Finally, we evaluated quantum resources for applying Grover's algorithm to the proposed LEA implementation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.163-170
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• 2022

LEA is a lightweight block cipher developed in Korea in 2013. In this paper, among block cipher operation methods, CTR operation mode and GCM operation mode that provides confidentiality and integrity are implemented. In the LEA-CTR operation mode, we propose an optimization implementation that omits the operation between states through the state fixation and omits the operation through the pre-operation by utilizing the characteristics of the fixed nonce value of the CTR operation mode. It also shows that the proposed method is applicable to the GCM operation mode, and implements the GCM through the implementation of the GHASH function using the Galois Field(2¹²⁸) multiplication operation. As a result, in the case of LEA-CTR to which the proposed technique is applied on 32-bit RISC-V, it was confirmed that the performance was improved by 2% compared to the previous study. In addition, the performance of the GCM operation mode is presented so that it can be used as a performance indicator in other studies in the future.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.585-592
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• 2014

In this paper, we study the LEA[1] block cipher system in UICC-16bit only. Also, we explain a key-schedule function and encryption/decryption structures, propose an advanced modified key-scheduling, and perform LEA in UICC-16bit that we proposed advanced modified key-scheduling. Also, we compare LEA with ARIA that proposed domestic standard block cipher, and we evaluate the efficiency on the LEA algorithm.