Zone based systems design framework for the realisation of efficient block cipher based message authentication code algorithms

Adekunle, A.A. and Woodhead, S.R. (2010) Zone based systems design framework for the realisation of efficient block cipher based message authentication code algorithms. In: 5th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security, ARES 2010. IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Piscataway, NJ, USA, pp. 216-221. ISBN 978-1-4244-5879-0

Abstract

A zone based systems design framework is described and utilized in the implementation of a message authentication code (MAC) algorithm based on symmetric key block ciphers. The resulting block cipher based MAC algorithm may be used to provide assurance of the authenticity and, hence, the integrity of binary data. Using software simulation to benchmark against the de facto cipher block chaining MAC(CBC-MAC) variant used in the TinySec security protocol for wireless sensor networks and the NIST cipher block chaining MAC standard, CMAC; we show that our zone based systems design framework can lead to block cipher based MAC constructs that point to improvements in message processing efficiency, processing throughput and processing latency.

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