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Title:
Lightweight Diffusion Layer: Importance of Toeplitz Matrices
Authors: Sumanta Sarkar, Habeeb Syed
Abstract:MDS matrices are used as building blocks of diffusion layers in block ciphers, and XOR count is a metric that estimates the hardware implementation cost. In this paper we report the minimum value of XOR counts of 4 \times 4 MDS matrices over \mathbb{F}_{2^4} and \mathbb{F}_{2^8}, respectively. We give theoretical constructions of Toeplitz MDS matrices and show that they achieve the minimum XOR count. We also prove that Toeplitz matrices cannot be both MDS and involutory. Further we give theoretical constructions of 4 \times 4 involutory MDS matrices over \mathbb{F}_{2^4} and \mathbb{F}_{2^8} that have the best known XOR counts so far: for \mathbb{F}_{2^4} our construction gives an involutory MDS matrix that actually improves the existing lower bound of XOR count, whereas for \mathbb{F}_{2^8}, it meets the known lower bound.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/835
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