Impact of radiation-induced soft error on embedded cryptography algorithms

With the advance of autonomous systems, security is becoming most crucial feature in different domains, highlighting need for protection against potential attacks. Mitigation these types attacks can be achieved using embedded cryptography algorithms, which differ performance, area, and reliability. This paper compares hardware implementations eXtended Tiny Encryption Algorithm (XTEA) Advanced Standard (AES) algorithms. Results show that XTEA implementation gives best relative performance (e.g., throughput, power), soft error reliability trade-offs. • Cryptography solutions on FPGAs are susceptible to radiation-induced errors. presents a lower radiation sensitivity w.r.t. AES solutions. solution