IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
ISSN-L : 1349-2543
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Implementation of HIGHT cryptic circuit for RFID tag
Young-Il LimJe-Hoon LeeYounggap YouKyoung-Rok Cho
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2009 Volume 6 Issue 4 Pages 180-186

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This paper presented a simplified hardware architecture of the block cryptographic algorithm, HIGHT, for wireless applications like a RFID system. We have modified the original HIGHT algorithm that reduced the critical path in the key scheduler and dismissed redundant logics sharing encryption and decryption datapathes, and thereby yield a smaller silicon area. The proposed HIGHT supporting both encryption and decryption had 2,608 gates, 13% smaller than the original HIGHT design excluding decryption block. It consumes the average power 10.8µW at 2.5V for 100kHz. It can be applicable to passive RFID tag without serious difficulty in size and power. Also, the maximum clock frequency of 125MHz allows a data throughput rate of 235Mbps that can support cryptography of high-speed multimedia data.

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