Abstract
In the last decades, the space sector has been the subject of significant technological improvements and investments from both government agencies and private companies, generating an increase in data rates and volumes of exchanged data. Accordingly, the security threats and the number of documented cyberattacks have grown. In order to meet the requirements of space applications, the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) has issued and maintained a series of reports and recommendations over the years, including a set of standards aimed at efficiently exploiting the communication channels. In this work, we present the implementation of an Advanced Encryption Standard – Galois/Counter Mode (AES-GCM) core on space-grade FPGAs, that is compliant with the latest CCSDS security standards and outperforms the state-of-the-art in terms of resource efficiency.
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This work was partially supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the project CN4—CN00000023 of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) program, grant agreement no. I53C22000720001, and in the framework of the FoReLab project (Departments of Excellence).
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Crocetti, L., Falaschi, F., Saponara, S., Fanucci, L. (2024). Highly-Efficient Galois Counter Mode Symmetric Encryption Core for the Space Data Link Security Protocol. In: Bellotti, F., et al. Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society. ApplePies 2023. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48121-5_42
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