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CC2430
Peripherals : AES Coprocessor
be changed to CBC. The last block is then
downloaded and the block uploaded will be the
MAC value.
13.12.5.1
CBC-MAC
CCM is a combination of CBC-MAC and CTR.
Parts of the CCM must therefore be done in
software. The following section gives a short
explanation of the necessary steps to be done.
When performing CBC-MAC encryption, data
is downloaded to the coprocessor in CBC-
MAC mode one block at a time, except for the
last block. Before the last block is loaded, the
mode is changed to CBC. The last block is
downloaded and the block uploaded is the
message MAC.
CBC-MAC decryption is similar to encryption.
The message MAC uploaded must be
compared with the MAC to be verified.
13.12.5.2
CCM mode
To encrypt a message under CCM mode, the
following sequence can be conducted (key is
already loaded):
Message Authentication Phase
(1) The software loads the IV with zeros.
(2) The software creates the block B0. The
layout of block B0 is shown in Figure 28.
This phase takes place during steps 1-6
shown in the following.
Name
B0
Designation
First block for authentication in CCM mode
Byte 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Name Flag
NONCE
L_M
Figure 28: Message Authentication Phase Block 0
There is no restriction on the NONCE value.
L_M is the message length in bytes.
The content of the Authentication Flag byte is
described in Figure 29.
For 802.15.4 the NONCE is 13 bytes and L_M
is 2 bytes.
L is set to 6 in this example. So, L-1 is set to 5.
M and A_Data can be set to any value.
Name
Designation
FLAG/B0
Authentication Flag Field for CCM mode
Bit
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Name
Reserved
A_Data
(M-2)/2
L-1
Value
0
x
x
x
x
1
0
1
Figure 29: Authentication Flag Byte
(3) If some Additional Authentication Data
(denoted a below) is needed (that is A_Data
=1), the software creates the A_Data length
field, called L(a) by :
• (3a) If l(a)=0, (that is A_Data =0), then L(a)
is the empty string. Note that l(a) is the
length of a in octets.
• (3b) If 0 < l(a) < 2¹⁶ - 2⁸ , then L(a) is the 2-
octets encoding of l(a).
The Additional Authentication Data is
appended to the A_Data length field L(a). The
Additional Authentication Blocks is padded
with zeros until the last Additional
Authentication Block is full. There is no
restriction on the length of a.
AUTH-DATA = L(a) + Authentication Data +
(zero padding)
(4) The last block of the message is padded
with zeros until full (that is if its length is not a
multiple of 128 bits).
(5) The software concatenates the block B0,
the Additional Authentication Blocks if any, and
the message;
Input message = B0 + AUTH-DATA +
Message + (zero padding of message)
(6) Once the input message authentication by
CBC-MAC is finished, the software leaves the
uploaded buffer contents unchanged (M=16),
or keeps only the buffer’s higher M bytes
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