HIGHT

HIGHT

Documentation

#include <cryptopp/hight.h>

HIGHT is a South Korean lightweight block cipher created by Deukjo Hong, Jaechul Sung, Seokhie Hong, Jongin Lim, Sangjin Lee, Bon-Seok Koo, Changhoon Lee, Donghoon Chang, Jesang Lee, Kitae Jeong, Hyun Kim, Jongsung Kim, and Seongtaek Chee. The cipher was designed for resource constrained devices and gadgets that participate in sensor networks and the Internet of Things. The HIGHT homepage is located at Korea Internet & Security Agency.

Crypto++ offers several ciphers from Korea Internet & Security Agency portfolio. The algorithms include ARIA, HIGHT, LEA, LSH and SEED. Additionally the library offers CHAM.

Note: if your project is using encryption alone to secure your data, encryption alone is usually not enough. Please take a moment to read Authenticated Encryption and consider using an algorithm or mode like CCM, GCM, EAX or ChaCha20Poly1305.

Sample Programs

There are three sample programs. The first shows HIGHT key and block sizes. The second and third use filters in a pipeline). Pipelining is a high level abstraction and it handles buffering input, buffering output and padding for you.

If you are benchmarking then you may want to visit Benchmarks | Sample Program. It shows you how to use StreamTransformation::ProcessString method to process multiple blocks at a time using a standard C++ interface. Calling a cipher's ProcessString or ProcessBlock eventually call a cipher's ProcessAndXorBlock or AdvancedProcessBlocks, and they are the lowest level API you can use.

The first example dumps the minimum, maximum, and default key lengths used by HIGHT.

using namespace CryptoPP;
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
   std::cout << "key length: " << HIGHT::DEFAULT_KEYLENGTH << std::endl;
   std::cout << "key length (min): " << HIGHT::MIN_KEYLENGTH << std::endl;
   std::cout << "key length (max): " << HIGHT::MAX_KEYLENGTH << std::endl;
   std::cout << "block size: " << HIGHT::BLOCKSIZE << std::endl;
   return 0;
}

Output from the above snippet produces the following. Notice the default key size is 128 bits or 16 bytes.

key length: 16
key length (min): 16
key length (max): 16
block size: 8

The following program shows how to operate HIGHT in CBC mode using a pipeline. The key is declared on the stack using a SecByteBlock to ensure the sensitive material is zeroized. Similar could be used for both plain text and recovered text.

using namespace CryptoPP;

void Print(const std::string& label, const std::string& val)
{
   std::string encoded;
   StringSource(val, true,
      new HexEncoder(
         new StringSink(encoded)
      ) // HexEncoder
   ); // StringSource

   std::cout << label << ": " << encoded << std::endl;
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
   AutoSeededRandomPool prng;
   SecByteBlock key(HIGHT::DEFAULT_KEYLENGTH);
   SecByteBlock iv(HIGHT::BLOCKSIZE);

   prng.GenerateBlock(key, key.size());
   prng.GenerateBlock(iv, iv.size());

   std::string plain = "CBC Mode Test";
   std::string cipher, encoded, recovered;

   /*********************************\
   \*********************************/

   try
   {
      std::cout << "plain text: " << plain << std::endl;

      CBC_Mode< HIGHT >::Encryption e;
      e.SetKeyWithIV(key, key.size(), iv);

      // The StreamTransformationFilter adds padding
      //  as required. ECB and CBC Mode must be padded
      //  to the block size of the cipher.
      StringSource s(plain, true, 
         new StreamTransformationFilter(e,
            new StringSink(cipher)
         ) // StreamTransformationFilter
      ); // StringSource
   }
   catch(const CryptoPP::Exception& e)
   {
      std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
      exit(1);
   }

   /*********************************\
   \*********************************/

   Print("key", std::string((const char*)key.begin(), key.size()));
   Print("iv", std::string((const char*)iv.begin(), iv.size()));
   Print("cipher text", cipher);

   /*********************************\
   \*********************************/

   try
   {
      CBC_Mode< HIGHT >::Decryption d;
      d.SetKeyWithIV(key, key.size(), iv);

      // The StreamTransformationFilter removes
      //  padding as required.
      StringSource s(cipher, true, 
         new StreamTransformationFilter(d,
            new StringSink(recovered)
         ) // StreamTransformationFilter
      ); // StringSource

      std::cout << "recovered text: " << recovered << std::endl;
   }
   catch(const CryptoPP::Exception& e)
   {
      std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
      exit(1);
   }
   return 0;
}

A typical output is shown below. Note that each run will produce different results because the key and initialization vector are randomly generated.

$ ./test.exe
plain text: CBC Mode Test
key: 4688008A97E6579DFDAF40FBB87A012C
iv: 6D63F8CA27C675BF
cipher text: AEF62BA4E847332E52A79255CE77569C
recovered text: CBC Mode Test

The third program modifies the second program by switching to EAX mode. Authenticity assurances can placed on the cipher text for nearly no programming costs by using an authenticated encryption mode. Below the StreamTransformationFilter was replaced by AuthenticatedEncryptionFilter and AuthenticatedDecryptionFilter.

EAX< HIGHT >::Encryption e;
e.SetKeyWithIV(key, key.size(), iv);

StringSource(plain, true, 
    new AuthenticatedEncryptionFilter(e,
        new StringSink(cipher)
    ) // StreamTransformationFilter
); // StringSource

...

EAX< HIGHT >::Decryption d;
d.SetKeyWithIV(key, key.size(), iv);

StringSource s(cipher, true, 
    new AuthenticatedDecryptionFilter(d,
        new StringSink(recovered)
    ) // StreamTransformationFilter
); // StringSource

Typical output is as follows. Notice the additional cipher text bytes due to the MAC bytes. See EAX Mode for details.

$ ./test.exe
plain text: EAX Mode Test
key: FF07D92341308CEED6FEEE413859C122
iv: 01D710E47375F6F0
cipher text: B1F6C0CD5669ACB22CFB1F1FB6842C4106B24A09AB
recovered text: EAX Mode Test

To manually insert bytes into the filter, perform multiple Puts. Though Get is used below, a StringSink could easily be attached and save the administrivia.

const size_t SIZE = 16 * 4;
string plain(SIZE, 0x00);

for(size_t i = 0; i < plain.size(); i++)
    plain[i] = 'A' + (i%26);
...

CBC_Mode < HIGHT >::Encryption encryption(key, sizeof(key), iv);
StreamTransformationFilter encryptor(encryption, NULL);

for(size_t j = 0; j < plain.size(); j++)
    encryptor.Put((byte)plain[j]);

encryptor.MessageEnd();
size_t ready = encryptor.MaxRetrievable();

string cipher(ready, 0x00);
encryptor.Get((byte*) &cipher[0], cipher.size());

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