Cipher Text Stealing integrated in implementations of IEEE P1619 for shared storage media

The IEEE P1619 standard for achieving high degree of security in shared storage media is explored, regarding the Cipher Text Stealing (CTS) feature. Various characteristics that are altered by the inclusion of this feature into an IP core are explored, including area requirements, performance and resource exploitation. Several architectures are considered, either commercially available or proposed by researchers. The results are interesting highlighting a gap in the available IP cores of the market, mainly due to the degradation of performance when CTS is integrated. Furthermore the proposed implementation, presents very good performance characteristics when combined with several available architectures for IEEE P1619 cores.