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A depth-16 circuit for the AES S-box

Published

Author(s)

Joan Boyar, Rene Peralta

Abstract

New techniques for reducing the depth of circuits for cryptographic applications are described and applied to the AES S-box. These techniques also keep the number of gates quite small. The result, when applied to the AES S-box, is a circuit with depth 16 and only 128 gates. For the inverse, it is also depth 16 and has only 127 gates. There is a shared middle part, common to both the S-box and its inverse, consisting of 63 gates.
Citation
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive
Volume
2011

Keywords

AES, S-box, finite field inversion, circuit complexity, circuit depth.

Citation

Boyar, J. and Peralta, R. (2011), A depth-16 circuit for the AES S-box, IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=908382, http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/332 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created June 16, 2011, Updated October 12, 2021