PRINCEv2 - More Security for (Almost) No Overhead
2020Conference / Journal
Authors
Miroslav Knezevic Ventzislav Nikov Friedrich Wiemer Yosuke Todo Shahram Rasoolzadeh Thorben Moos Gregor Leander Baptiste Lambin Maria Eichlseder Dušan Božilov
Research Hub
Research Hub A: Kryptographie der Zukunft
Research Challenges
RC 1: Cryptography against Mass Surveillance
RC 7: Building Secure Systems
Abstract
In this work, we propose tweaks to the PRINCE block cipher that help us to increase its security without changing the number of rounds or round operations. We get substantially higher security for the same complexity. From an implementation perspective, PRINCEv2 comes at an extremely low overhead compared to PRINCE in all key categories, such as area, latency and energy. We expect, as it is already the case for PRINCE, that the new cipher PRINCEv2 will be deployed in various settings.
