Title: A novel approach to design A5/1 stream cipher using power analysis attack resistant reversible logic gates

Authors: P. Saravanan; P. Kalpana

Addresses: Assistant Professor (Senior Grade), Dept. of ECE, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore - 641 004, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore – 641 004, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: Nowadays, various side-channel analysis techniques are playing an important role in cryptography and have brought serious threats on implementations of cryptographic algorithms. Among them, power analysis attack is a powerful cryptanalytic technique, aiming to extract secret data from a cryptographic device by collecting and analysing power consumption traces. Reversible logic gates theoretically consume zero power being the motivation of this work to design a ciphering algorithm. For the first time in literature, we propose a reversible logic synthesis of A5/1 stream cipher, for securing conversations in GSM cellular system in this work. The complete structure of A5/1 stream cipher is deduced to simple logical operations and they are synthesised with reversible gates such as Fredkin, CNOT and CCNOT gates. The performance metrics of the reversible A5/1 stream cipher such as ancilla inputs, garbage outputs and quantum cost are also tabulated.

Keywords: A5/1; stream cipher; reversible logic gates; side channel attacks; SCA; power analysis attacks; quantum logic synthesis; GSM cellular system; cryptography; security; ancilla inputs; garbage outputs; quantum cost.

DOI: 10.1504/IJENM.2016.075176

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management, 2016 Vol.7 No.1, pp.70 - 85

Received: 15 Dec 2014
Accepted: 23 Feb 2015
Published online: 06 Mar 2016 *

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