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The 128-bit Blockcipher

Performance of CLEFIA

Performance data of miscellaneous implementations of CLEFIA are introduced here.

Table 1 shows the performance of CLEFIA in hardware implementations expressed by several numerical values in various aspects. The values in the table are measured by using implementations for which the 0.09 µm standard cell library is utilized.

Table 1 : Hardware Implementation Results of CLEFIA
Key
(bits)
Enc/Dec
(cycles)
Key Setup
(cycles)
Optimi-
zation
Area
(gates)
Freq.
(MHz)
Speed
(Mbps)
Speed/Area
(Kbps/gate)
128 18 12 area 5,979 225.83 1,605.94 268.63
speed 12,009 422.29 3,003.00 250.06
36 24 area 4,950 201.28 715.69 144.59
speed 9,377 389.55 1,385.10 147.71
192 22 20 area 8,536 206.56 1,201.85 140.81
256 26 20 area 8,482 206.56 1,016.95 119.89

Table 2 shows the performance of CLEFIA in compact hardware implementations. The values in the table are measured by using implementations for which the 0.13 µm standard cell library is utilized.

Table 2 : Compact Hardware Implementation Results of CLEFIA
Key
(bits)
Mode Enc/Dec
(cycles)
Key Setup
(cycles)
Area
(gates)
Speed@100KHz
(Kbps)
128 Enc 176 128 2,678 73
Enc/Dec 176 128 2,781 73
Enc 328 224 2,488 39
Enc/Dec 328/320 224 2,604 39/40

Table 3 shows the performance of CLEFIA in software implementations. These values are measured by using assembly codes for AMD AthlonTM Processor 4000+ using Windows XP 64-bit Edition.

Table 3 : Software Implementation Results of CLEFIA
Type of
implement
Key Length
(bits)
Enc.
(cycles/byte)
Dec.
(cycles/byte)
Key Setup
(cycles)
Table Size
(KB)
1 block 128 12.9 13.3 217 8
192 15.8 16.2 272
256 18.3 18.4 328
2 block
parallel
128 11.1 11.1 217 16
192 13.3 13.3 272
256 15.6 15.6 328

Performance