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@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ aes_speed ========= - Speed optimized Verilog implementation of the symmetric block cipher AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) as specified in the NIST document [FIPS 197](http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf). @@ -11,11 +10,11 @@ is to allow a drop-in replacement in Cryptech designs. ## Status ## -Just started, not done. Does not work. +First round of optimizations done. Core similates correctly. Has not +yet been implemented in FPGA. ## Introduction ## - This implementation supports 128 and 256 bit keys. The implementation is iterative and process one 128 block at a time. Blocks are processed on a word level with 4 S-boxes in the data path. The @@ -30,19 +29,18 @@ will reduce the size to about 50%. For cipher modes such as CTR, GCM decryption in the AES core will never be used and thus the decipher block processing can be removed. -This is a fairly compact implementation. Further reduction could be -achived by just having a single S-box. Similarly the performane can be -increased by having 8 or even 16 S-boxes which would reduce the number -of cycles to two cycles for each round. +The core has been equipped with 16 S-boxes for encipher and 16 Inverse +S-boxes for decipher. This allows the core to perform the SubBytes and +InverseSubBytes operations in the AES round functions in one cycle. + +The key expansion does not share S-boxes with the encipher datapath, so +the total number of S-boxes is 20. ## Performance and area comparison ## -Number of cycles for the Cryptech AES core: +Number of cycles for the Cryptech old AES core: - AES-128 Encipher one block with key expansion: 57 Number of cycles for the Cryptech AES speed core: - AES-128 Encipher with key expansion: 27 - - -Resources used by the Crypteh AES core: |