Using Encryption - 2021.2 English

Vitis Unified Software Platform Documentation: Embedded Software Development (UG1400)

Document ID
UG1400
Release Date
2021-12-15
Version
2021.2 English

Secure booting, which validates the images on devices before they are allowed to execute, has become a mandatory feature for most electronic devices being deployed in the field. For encryption, Xilinx supports an advanced encryption standard (AES) algorithm AES encryption.

AES provides symmetric key cryptography (one key definition for both encryption and decryption). The same steps are performed to complete both encryption and decryption in reverse order.

AES is an iterated symmetric block cipher, which means that it does the following:

  • Works by repeating the same defined steps multiple times
  • Uses a secret key encryption algorithm
  • Operates on a fixed number of bytes