Open AccessSimontool: Simulation Support for the Simon Cipher
Author(s) -
Brian Degnan,
Gregory D. Durgin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ieee journal of radio frequency identification
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2469-7281
DOI - 10.1109/jrfid.2017.2771216
Subject(s) - fields, waves and electromagnetics , communication, networking and broadcast technologies , signal processing and analysis
The Simon Cipher is a low complexity, symmetric cipher that was designed for pervasive computing applications, such as radio-frequency identification (RFID) and Internet of Things; however, there has not been a hardware implementation of the Simon Cipher that addresses the unique low-power and low-device count demands for RFID. We present a bit-serial hardware implementation guide and the simontool program, which facilitates design, simulation, and verification of a bit-serial implementations of the Simon Cipher by emulating an 1-bit hardware implementation in software. This software tool will enable RFID chip designers to incorporate cutting-edge encryption algorithms in their IC designs.