Cryptography with Asynchronous Logic Automata

We introduce the use of asynchronous logic automata (ALA) for cryptography. ALA aligns the descriptions of hardware and software for portability, programmability, and scalability. An implementation of the A5/1 stream cipher is provided as a design example in a concise hardware description language, Snap, and we discuss a power- and timingbalanced cell design.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: BIRTHDAY
• Authors: Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Kailiang Chen, Jonathan Bachrach, Scott Greenwald, Forrest Green, Neil Gershenfeld
• Keywords: Applied Computing, BIRTHDAY 2012, Cipher, Hardware Description Language, Programmability