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In this paper, we propose Rocca-S, an authenticated encryption scheme with a 256-bit key and a 256-bit tag targeting 6G applications bootstrapped from AES.Rocca-S achieves an encryption/decryption speed of more than 200 Gbps in the latest software environments. In hardware implementation, Rocca-S is the first cryptographic algorithm to achieve speeds more than 2 Tbps without sacrificing other metrics such as occupied silicon area or power/energy consumption making Rocca-S a competitive choice satisfying the requirements of a wide spectrum of environments for 6G applications.
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Takanori Isobe is supported by JST, PRESTO Grant Number JPMJPR2031. This research was in part conducted under a contract of “Research and development on new generation cryptography for secure wireless communication services” among “Research and Development for Expansion of Radio Wave Resources (JPJ000254)”, which was supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan. We thank Akinori Hosoyamada, Akiko Inoue, Ryoma Ito, Tetsu Iwata, Kazuhiko Mimematsu, Ferdinand Sibleyras, Yosuke Todo, Patrick Derbez, Pierre-Alain Fouque, André Schrottenloher, Santanu Sarkar, Satyam Kumar, Chandan Dey and anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.
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Anand, R. et al. (2024). An Ultra-High Throughput AES-Based Authenticated Encryption Scheme for 6G: Design and Implementation. In: Tsudik, G., Conti, M., Liang, K., Smaragdakis, G. (eds) Computer Security – ESORICS 2023. ESORICS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14344. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50594-2_12
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