Design and characterization of HIGHT cryptocore

Security plays a major role in the world of e-commerce. Cryptography is important for effective secure communication. The low-resource devices in the market needs lightweight ciphers for the hidden writing. In this paper a detailed study of HIGHT cryptographic algorithm is done. HIGHT is an ISO Standard block cipher which has 64-bit block length and 128-bit key length. HIGHT was designed to be proper for the implementation in the low resource environment such as WSN, WBAN, RFID tag or tiny ubiquitous devices. It is implemented on Spartan 6 FPGA and performance metrics are found out. A HIGHT cryptocore is designed, characterized and implemented which is a reference platform for hardware design engineers to model devices which require lightweight characteristics.