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TALOS: An Ultra-Efficient Area-Space 6G CryptoProcessor Leveraging Reusable Hardware Security Modules.

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Τίτλος: TALOS: An Ultra-Efficient Area-Space 6G CryptoProcessor Leveraging Reusable Hardware Security Modules.
Συγγραφείς: Bikos, Anastasios N.
Πηγή: Journal of Cybersecurity & Privacy; Aug2026, Vol. 6 Issue 4, p122, 62p
Θεματικοί όροι: Cryptography, Hardware design & construction, Stream ciphers, Microprocessor design & construction, Advanced Encryption Standard
Περίληψη: This paper presents TALOS, a unified reusable 6G CryptoProcessor architecture for high-assurance symmetric security services under a 256-bit private-key baseline. The design addresses a core hardware challenge in future mobile systems: supporting heterogeneous strong symmetric primitives without duplicating complete cipher cores. TALOS combines a Hierarchical Common Data Path (HCDP) with a three-tier cryptographic encapsulation model spanning AES-256, Snow 5G/SNOW-V-class, and ZUC-256. Tier-1 captures native nonlinear substitutions, Tier-2 compiles bounded arithmetic nonlinearities into exact micro-S-boxes, and Tier-3 consolidates shared permutation, XOR, affine, diffusion, and state-transport fabrics. This decomposition preserves cipher correctness while exposing realistic sharing opportunities across substitution, arithmetic, and linear transport layers. The architecture also supports confidentiality processing and integration with integrity- and authentication-oriented service logic through a common control/resource framework. Compared with monolithic universal-box or loosely aggregated multi-core approaches, TALOS provides a disciplined, RTL-oriented taxonomy for crypto-agile symmetric-core hardware. The proposed framework advances 6G cryptographic hardware design by combining operator-exact reuse, architectural scalability, and implementation-oriented efficiency within a single CryptoProcessor paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Περιγραφή
ISSN:2624800X
DOI:10.3390/jcp6040122