Lightweight Authenticated Encryption Mode of Operation for Tweakable Block Ciphers

Counter-in-Tweak: Authenticated Encryption Modes for Tweakable Block Ciphers

We propose the Synthetic Counter-in-Tweak (SCT) mode, which turns a tweakable block cipher into a nonce-based authenticated encryption scheme (with associated data). The SCT mode combines in a SIV-like manner a Wegman-Carter MAC inspired from PMAC for the authentication part and a new counter-like mode for the encryption part, with the unusual property that the counter is applied on the tweak i...

Authenticated Encryption Mode of VEST Ciphers

This paper demonstrates operation of the authenticated encryption mode in VEST ciphers. All VEST ciphers operating in the authenticated encryption mode with infinite error propagation provide keyed message authentication at the same speed as their keystream generation, with negligible overhead and maintaining their security ratings.

A MAC Mode for Lightweight Block Ciphers

Lightweight cryptography strives to protect communication in constrained environments without sacrificing security. However, security often conflicts with efficiency, shown by the fact that many new lightweight block cipher designs have block sizes as low as 64 or 32 bits. Such low block sizes lead to impractical limits on how much data a mode of operation can process per key. MAC (message auth...

OMD: A Compression Function Mode of Operation for Authenticated Encryption

JAMBU Lightweight Authenticated Encryption Mode and AES-JAMBU

In this paper, we propose a lightweight authenticated encryption mode JAMBU. It only needs n-bit extra register for a block cipher with 2n-bit block size. It achieves n-bit authentication security when 2 bits are processed under a single key. When nonce (IV) is reused, the encryption security is similar to that of the CFB mode while the message authentication maintains strong security. We insta...