• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.1133-1138
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• 2018

Lightweight Encryption Algorithm (LEA) is one of the most promising lightweight block cipher algorithm due to its high efficiency and security level. There are many works on the efficient LEA implementation. However, many works missed the secure application services where the IoT platforms perform secure communications between heterogeneous IoT platforms. In order to establish the secure communication channel between them, the encryption should be performed in the on-the-fly method. In this paper, we present the LEA implementation performing the on-the-fly method over the ARM Cortex-M3 processors. The general purpose registers are fully utilized to retain the required variables for the key scheduling and encryption operations and the rotation operation is optimized away by using the barrel-shifter technique. Since the on-the-fly method does not store the round keys, the RAM requirements are minimized. The implementation is evaluated over the ARM Cortex-M3 processor and it only requires 34 cycles/byte.

• 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.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.39-46
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• 2015

This paper describes hardware implementation of the encryption block of the '128 bit block cipher LEA' among various lightweight encryption algorithms for IoT (Internet of Things) security. Round function blocks and key-schedule blocks are designed by parallel circuits for high throughput. The encryption blocks support secret-key of 128 bits, and are designed by FSM method and 24/n stage(n=1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12) pipeline methods. The LEA-128 encryption blocks are modeled using Verilog-HDL and implemented on FPGA, and according to the synthesis results, minimum area and maximum throughput are provided.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.449-456
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• 2015

Recently, information security of IoT(Internet of Things) have been increasing to interest and many research groups have been studying for cryptographic algorithms, which are suitable for IoT environment. LEA(Lightweight Encryption Algorithm) developed by NSRI(National Security Research Institute) is commensurate with IoT. In this paper, we propose two first-order Correlation Power Analysis(CPA) attacks for LEA and experimentally demonstrate our attacks. Additionally, we suggest the mask countermeasure for LEA defeating our attacks. In order to estimate efficiency for the masked LEA, its operation cost is compared to operation time of masked AES.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.359-362
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• 2014

With recent growing of application service, servers are required to sustain great amount of data and to handle them quickly: besides, data must be processed securely. The main security algorithm used in security services of server is AES(Advanced Encryption Standard - 2001 published by NIST), which is widely accepted in the world market for superiority of performance. In Korea, NSRI(National Security Research Institute) has developed ARIA(Academy, Research Institute, Agency) algorithm in 2004 and LEA(Lightweight Encryption Algorithm) algorithm in 2012. In this paper, we show advantage of LEA by comparing performance with AES and ARIA in various servers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.2333-2340
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• 2016

A LEA (Lightweight Encryption Algorithm) crypto-processor was designed, which supports three master key lengths of 128/ 192/256-bit, ECB and CTR modes of operation. To achieve high throughput rate, the round transformation block was designed with 128 bits datapath and a pipelined structure of 16 stages. Encryption/decryption is carried out through 12/14/16 pipelined stages according to the master key length, and each pipelined stage performs round transformation twice. The key scheduler block was optimized to share hardware resources that are required for encryption, decryption, and three master key lengths. The round keys generated by key scheduler are stored in 32 round key registers, and are repeatedly used in round transformation until master key is updated. The pipelined LEA processor was verified by FPGA implementation, and the estimated performance is about 8.3 Gbps at the maximum clock frequency of 130 MHz.

• 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.