Comparison of the hardware architectures and FPGA implementations of stream ciphers

11th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 571-574

  Galanis, M D ^a   Kitsos, P ^a   Kostopoulos, G ^a   Sklavos, N ^a   Koufopavlou, O ^a   Goutis, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; STANDARDS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; CRYPTOGRAPHY;

HARDWARE ARCHITECTURES; HELIX CIPHER; STREAM CIPHER; W7 ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; FPGAS IMPLEMENTATION; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE/IMPLEMENTATION; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; HELIX CIPHER; PERFORMANCE; SECURITY PROBLEMS; STREAM CIPHERS; VHDL LANGUAGE; W7 ALGORITHM;

EID: 27644550957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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