Abstract

Secure data transmission is very important in any communication systems. Network Security provides many techniques for efficient data transmission through unprotected network. Cryptography provides a method for securing the transmission of information by the process of encryption. Encryption converts the message in to unreadable form (Cipher Text) . Decryption converts this Cipher Text back to original message. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) has been used as the first choice of cryptographic algorithm for many security based applications because of the high level of security and flexibility of implementation in hardware and software. This paper presents an area efficient, low power design for AES based on an 8-bit data path making it suitable for wireless security applications. It has a significant power-area-latency performance improvements over other existing AES designs. For high performance applications, AES S- box and inverse S-box implemented using composite field Arithmetic (CFA). Also low resource Mixcolumn structure is used in this structure. The 8 bit data path architecture is implemented in XILINX 13.2 and simulated using MODELSIM 6.5 software. Also the power and area calculation is done with the help of SYNOPSYS software.

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