Abstract. In this paper, we propose a new block cipher HIGHT with 64-bit block length and 128-bit key length. It provides low-resource hardware implementation, which is proper to ubiquitous computing device such as a sensor in USN or a RFID tag. HIGHT does not only consist of simple operations to be ultra-light but also has enough security as a good encryption algorithm. Our hardware implementation of HIGHT requires 3048 gates on 0.25 µm technology.

ARIA and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) are next generation standard block cipher algorithms of Korea and the US, respectively. This letter presents an area‐efficient unified hardware architecture of ARIA and AES. Both algorithms have 128‐bit substitution permutation network (SPN) structures, and their substitution and permutation layers could be efficiently merged. Therefore, we propose a 128‐bit processor architecture with resource sharing, which is capable of processing ARIA and AES. This is the first architecture which supports both algorithms. Furthermore, it requires only 19,056 logic gates and encrypts data at 720 Mbps and 1,047 Mbps for ARIA and AES, respectively.

The aim of this study is to synthesize pathological breathy voice and to make a cepstral peak prominence (CPP) table following breathiness ranks by cepstral analysis to supplement reliability of the perceptual auditory judgment task. KlattGrid synthesizer included in Praat was used. Synthesis parameters consist of two groups, i.e., constants and variables. Constant parameters are pitch, amplitude, flutter, open phase, oral formant and bandwidth. Variable parameters are breathiness (BR), aspiration amplitude (AH), and spectral tilt (TL). Five hundred sixty samples of synthetic breathy vowel /a/ for male were created. Three raters participated in ranking of the breathiness. 217 were proved to be inadequate samples from perceptual judgment and cepstral analysis. Finally, 343 samples were selected. These CPP values and other related parameters from cepstral analysis are classified under four breathiness ranks (B0~B3). The mean and standard deviation of CPP is 16.10±1.15 dB(B0), 13.68±1.34 dB(B1), 10.97±1.41 dB(B2), and 3.03±4.07 dB(B3). The value of CPP decreases toward the severe group of breathiness because there is a lot of noise and a small quantity of harmonics.

The e ects of the bed temperature, gas ow rate, bed material and static bed height on the fast pyrolysis of Jatropha curcas L. seedshell cake (JSC) and palm shell in a bubbling uidized bed reactor have been determined. Without catalysis, the maximum pyrolysis liquid yields of 49 and 56 wt% from JSC and palm shell are obtained at bed temperatures of 743 and 762 K, respectively. The e ect of the FCC catalyst on the fast pyrolysis of palm shell has also been studied. The use of a fresh FCC catalyst (FC) and spent FCC catalyst (SC) increased the yields of gas and water, while the oil fraction decreased when compared with the non-catalytic pyrolysis. Elemental analysis shows that the oxygen content of the pyrolysis liquid decreased to 17% with the FC and to 23% in the presence of the SC, resulting in increased higher heating values (HHV) of the catalytic pyrolysis liquids compared with the non-catalytic pyrolysis liquid. Simulated distillation (SIMDIS) analysis of the JSC pyrolysis liquids show that the pyrolysis liquid obtained at a bed temperature of 744 K had the highest content of middle distillate. Short Communication

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