Lightweight stream ciphers for green IT engineering

At the moment the most widely used are symmetric cryptographic transformations, in particular, stream ciphers. The development of an efficient synchronous stream cipher is reduced to the construction of a pseudo-random sequence generator with defined cryptographic properties. It should be noted that in devices with limited computing power, low volume and low power consumption the implementation of reliable cryptographic methods is extremely complicated. Limited physical parameters, low power consumption, low computing power and other characteristic attributes of “green” IT engineering forces the use of new approaches for designing cryptographic protection tools. The main cryptographic transformations are considered and experimental studies of performance and statistical security are conducted. We propose new methods and hardware and software tools for lightweight stream encryption that meet the current requirements of “green” IT engineering. It is proposed synthesis method for the construction of nonlinear-feedback shift register, which allows creating nonlinear registers with design features that correspond to the certain predefined criteria.