Comparative Performance Analysis of Present Lightweight Cipher for Security Applications in Extremely Constrained Environment

Abstract

A lightweight cipher architecture is a cryptographic system designed to be efficient in terms of computational complexity, memory usage, and power consumption. It is often used in applications where resources are limited, such as in small embedded devices like smart cards, RFID tags, and sensors. There are several popular lightweight cipher architectures, such as PRESENT, SIMON, and SPECK architectures. PRESENT cipher architecture, is a 64-bit block cipher with a 80-bit key size. Overall, a lightweight cipher architecture is designed to provide strong security while using minimal resources. This can be achieved by using simple and efficient algorithms that can be implemented in hardware or software with low computational cost and low memory usage. In this paper, we have demonstrated a present Lightweight cipher architecture on FPGA board for security applications in extremely constrained environment. The current cipher architecture designs are assessed and compared for various hardware FPGA boards such as Artrix, vertex7, Kintex and Zynq SOC under the same implementation conditions, using performance metrics as area, power, and throughput.