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An Efficient DES-Based Architecture for Teleradiology Applications

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Ensuring the security of images transmitted openly is critical due to their high susceptibility to unauthorized access. To mitigate such risks, ‎employing data security measures is essential. With the increasing importance of data security in today's digital age, Data Encryption Stand-‎ard (DES) stands out as a notable block cipher technique for encrypting and decrypting data. Protecting sensitive information is crucial in ‎embedded applications. Implementing cryptographic algorithms on programmable devices like Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) ‎combines the physical security of hardware solutions with the speed superiority over software-based approaches. FPGAs offer flexibility ‎like software applications, with the added advantage of being reprogrammable to adapt to different cryptographic algorithms or modifications within the same algorithm, ensuring robust data protection. This work introduces a hardware-oriented approach to executing the ‎DES algorithm using FPGAs. The approach adopted utilizes an iterative loop process with a 128-bit key size, leveraging a lookup table ‎based on S-boxes. Simulation waveforms confirm that the FPGA-based implementation meets the desired specifications, showcasing high ‎throughput. The research highlights a novel hardware-based version of the Triple DES encryption algorithm that achieves high-speed performance with minimal hardware requirements‎.
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415193871
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