Implementation of AES and Triple-DES cryptography using a PCI-based FPGA board

This paper presents hardware implementations of the two representative cryptographic algorithms, Advanced Encryption Standard (Rijndael), and the present American federal standard (Triple DES) using a PCI- based FPGA board named "EBSW-1" This board bases on a FPGA chip (Xilinx Virtex300 XCV300PQ240-4). The implementation results of these two algorithms were tested successfully. AES circuit could proceed an encryption as well as a decryption two times faster than the Triple-DES circuit, while the former circuit used higher rates of CLBs. Besides, if these architectures use pipeline-registers, the processing speed will be increased about 1.5 times than the presented circuits.