• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.343-348
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• 2023

As the IoT market continues to grow, security threats to IoT devices with limited resources are also increasing. However, the application of security technology to the existing system to IoT devices with limited resources is impossible due to the inherent characteristics of IoT devices. Various methods for solving related problems have been studied in existing studies to solve this problem. Therefore, this study analyzes the characteristics of domestic IoT authentication standards and existing research to propose an algorithm that applies blockchain-based authentication and lightweight encryption algorithms to IoT equipment with limited resources. In this study, a key generation method was applied using a Lamport hash-chain and data integrity between IoT devices were provided using a Merkle Tree, and an LEA encryption algorithm was applied using confidentiality in data communication. In the experiment, it was verified that the efficiency is high when the LEA encryption algorithm, which is a lightweight encryption algorithm, is applied to IoT devices with limited resources.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.888-894
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• 2015

This paper describes an efficient hardware design of Lightweight Encryption Algorithm (LEA) developed by National Security Research Institute(NSRI). The LEA crypto-processor supports for master key of 128-bit. To achieve small-area and low-power implementation, an efficient hardware sharing is employed, which shares hardware resources for encryption and decryption in round transformation block and key scheduler. The designed LEA crypto-processor was verified by FPGA implementation. The LEA core synthesized with Xilinx ISE has 1,498 slice elements, and the estimated throughput is 216.24 Mbps with 135.15 MHz.

• 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.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.64 no.10
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• pp.1460-1468
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• 2015

As the number of IoT service increases, the interest of lightweight block cipher algorithm, which consists of simple operations with low-power and high speed, is growing. LEA(Leightweight Encryption Algorithm) is recently adopted as one of lightweight encryption standards in Korea. In this paper a pipeline LEA architecture is proposed to process large amounts of data with high throughput. The proposed pipeline LEA can communicate with external modules in the 32-bit I/O interface. It consists of input, output and encryption pipeline stages which take 4 cycles using a muti-cycle pipeline technique. The experimental results showed that the proposed pipeline LEA achieved more than 7.5 Gbps even though the key length was varied. Compared with the previous high speed LEA in accordance with key length of 128, 192, and 256 bits, the throughput of the pipeline LEA was improved 6.45, 7.52, and 8.6 times. Also the throughput per area was improved 2, 1.82, and 2.1 times better than the previous one.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

Lightweight Encryption Algorithm(LEA) was developed by National Security Research Institute(NSRI) in 2013 and targeted to be suitable for environments for big data processing, cloud service, and mobile. LEA specifies the 128-bit message block size and 128-, 192-, and 256-bit key sizes. In this paper, block cipher LEA algorithm which can encrypt and decrypt 128-bit messages is designed using Verilog-HDL. The designed IP for encryption and decryption has a maximum throughput of 874Mbps in 128-bit key mode and that of 749Mbps in 192 and 656Mbps in 256-bit key modes on Xilinx Vertex5. The cryptographic IP of this paper is applicable as security module of the mobile areas such as smart card, internet banking, e-commerce and IoT.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.397-406
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• 2017

In case of using the existing encrypted algorithm for massive data encryption service under the cloud environment, the problem that requires much time in data encryption come to the fore. To make up for this weakness, a partial encryption method is used generally. However, the existing partial encryption method has a disadvantage that the encrypted data can be inferred due to the remaining area that is not encrypted. This study proposes a partial encryption method of increasing the encryption speed and complying with the security standard in order to solve this demerit. The proposed method consists of 3 processes such as header formation, partial encryption and block shuffle. In step 1 Header formation process, header data necessary for the algorithm are generated. In step 2 Partial encryption process, a part of data is encrypted, using LEA (Lightweight Encryption Algorithm), and all data are transformed with XOR of data in the unencrypted part and the block generated in the encryption process. In step 3 Block shuffle process, the blocks are mixed, using the shuffle data stored with the random arrangement form in the header to carry out encryption by transforming the data into an unrecognizable form. As a result of the implementation of the proposed method, applying it to a mobile device, all the encrypted data were transformed into an unrecognizable form, so the data could not be inferred, and the data could not be restored without the encryption key. It was confirmed that the proposed method could make prompt treatment possible in encrypting mass data since the encryption speed is improved by approximately 273% or so compared to LEA which is Lightweight Encryption Algorithm.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.584-586
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• 2017

In this paper we provide a unified crypto core that integrates lightweight symmetric cryptography and authentication. The crypto core implements a unified 128 bit key architecture of PRESENT encryption algorithm and a new lightweight encryption algorithm. The crypto core also consist of an authentication unit which neglects the use of hashing algorithms. Four algorithms are used for authentication which come from the Hopper-Blum (HB) and Hopper-Blum-Munilla-Penado (HB-MP) family of lightweight authentication algorithms: HB, HB+, HB-MP and HB-MP+. A unified architecture of these algorithms is implemented in this paper. The unified cryptosystem is designed using Verilog HDL, simulated with Modelsim SE and synthesized with Xilinx Design Suite 14.3. The crypto core synthesized to 1130 slices at 189Mhz frequency on Spartan6 FPGA device.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.12
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• pp.822-830
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• 2014

Recently, A Security service in Internet environments has been more important and the use of SSL & TLS is increasing for the personel homepage as well as administrative institutions. Also, IETF suggests using DTLS, which can provide a security service to constrained devices with lower CPU power and limited memory space under IoT environments. In this paper, we implement LEA(Lightweight Encryption Algorithm) algorithm and apply it to OpenSSL. The implemented algorithm is compared with other symmetric encryption algorithms such as AES etc, and it shows the superior performance in calculation speed.

• 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.