Survey and benchmark of lightweight block ciphers for MSP430 16‐bit microcontroller
Mickaël Cazorla, Sylvain Gourgeon, Kévin Marquet, Marine Minier · Security and Communication Networks · 2015
Abstract For security applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), choosing best algorithms in terms of energy‐efficiency and of small memory requirements is a real challenge because the sensor networks are composed of low‐power entities. In some previous works, 12 block‐ciphers have been benchmarked on an ATMEL AVR ATtiny45 8‐bit microcontroller and the best candidates to use in the context of small embedded platforms have been deduced. This article proposes to study on the TI 16‐bit microcontroller MSP430 most of the recent lightweight block cipher proposals as well as some conventional block ciphers. First, we describe the design of the chosen block ciphers with a security and an implementation summary and we then present some implementation tests performed on our dedicated platform. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.