Reversible cryptographic hardware with optimized quantum cost and delay

TLDR: Novel designs for reversible ALU of a cryptoprocessor which have been implemented in standard gate library are proposed and the quantum cost reported here are better than the lower bounds reported in literature.

Abstract: In order to defend the power analysis attack reversible logic is a good candidate as it ideally does not dissipate any heat and today reversible logic is an emerging research area. In literature different designs for reversible hardware cryptography have been proposed but they have been implemented using complex gate libraries and further theorems have been proposed defining lower limit of implementation cost which is quantum cost. We have proposed novel designs for reversible ALU of a cryptoprocessor which have been implemented in standard gate library and the quantum cost reported here are better than the lower bounds reported in literature. Further we have calculated delay of the proposed designs. We have verified that our proposed designs are minimal with respect to gate count which is circuit cost by simulating it in RevKit. This is for the first time that the optimization algorithms to optimize quantum cost and delay have been applied to improvise on the cost metric in reversible ALU design.