Software Benchmarking of NIST Lightweight Hash Function Finalists on Resource-Constrained AVR Platform via ChipWhisperer

Mohsin Khan, Håvard Dagenborg, Dag Johansen

2025

Abstract

This paper presents a novel performance evaluation of five key lightweight hash functions on an ATxmega128 microcontroller, using our E-RANK metric as a composite metric that integrates execution speed, memory footprint, and energy efficiency into a unified and balanced ranking. We leverage hardware-specific profiling techniques, where counter registers are accessed directly on the microcontroller to measure execution speed and analyze RAM and ROM footprints post-compilation to determine memory usage. Energy consumption is measured using the ChipWhisperer FPGA toolkit, capturing voltage traces via an oscilloscope probe. Our evaluations provide new insights into the trade-offs inherent in each lightweight hash function, providing guidance on which one is most suitable for various application-specific constraints.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Khan M., Dagenborg H. and Johansen D. (2025). Software Benchmarking of NIST Lightweight Hash Function Finalists on Resource-Constrained AVR Platform via ChipWhisperer. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT; ISBN 978-989-758-760-3, SciTePress, pages 690-695. DOI: 10.5220/0013560700003979

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt25,
author={Mohsin Khan and Håvard Dagenborg and Dag Johansen},
title={Software Benchmarking of NIST Lightweight Hash Function Finalists on Resource-Constrained AVR Platform via ChipWhisperer},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT},
year={2025},
pages={690-695},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013560700003979},
isbn={978-989-758-760-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT
TI - Software Benchmarking of NIST Lightweight Hash Function Finalists on Resource-Constrained AVR Platform via ChipWhisperer
SN - 978-989-758-760-3
AU - Khan M.
AU - Dagenborg H.
AU - Johansen D.
PY - 2025
SP - 690
EP - 695
DO - 10.5220/0013560700003979
PB - SciTePress