[Resource Topic] 2017/1151: Shorter Linear Straight-Line Programs for MDS Matrices

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Title:
Shorter Linear Straight-Line Programs for MDS Matrices

Authors: Thorsten Kranz, Gregor Leander, Ko Stoffelen, Friedrich Wiemer

Abstract:

Recently a lot of attention is paid to the search for efficiently implementable MDS matrices for lightweight symmetric primitives. Previous work concentrated on locally optimizing the multiplication with single matrix elements. Separate from this line of work, several heuristics were developed to find shortest linear straight-line programs. Solving this problem actually corresponds to globally optimizing multiplications by matrices. In this work we combine those, so far largely independent line of works. As a result, we achieve implementations of known, locally optimized, and new MDS matrices that significantly outperform all implementations from the literature. Interestingly, almost all previous locally optimized constructions behave very similar with respect to the globally optimized implementation. As a side effect, our work reveals the so far best implementation of the AES MixColumns operation with respect to the number of XOR operations needed.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1151

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