| Title | Evaluating the Performance of Lightweight Block Ciphers for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2022 |
| Authors | Abdel-Halim, Islam Tharwat, Zayan, Hassan M. |
| Conference Name | 2022 4th Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES) |
| Date Published | oct |
| Keywords | Arduino, Cipher, Ciphers, Costs, Cyber-physical systems, Encryption, Internet of Things, Lightweight Ciphers, lightweight cryptography, Memory management, performance evaluation, Power demand, pubcrawl, Random access memory, Resiliency, Scalability, Throughput |
| Abstract | In the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), lightweight block ciphers are of vital importance. Due to the nature of the devices involved, traditional security solutions can add overhead and perhaps inhibit the application's objective due to resource limits. Lightweight cryptography is a novel suite of ciphers that aims to provide hardware-constrained devices with a high level of security while maintaining a low physical cost and high performance. In this paper, we are going to evaluate the performance of some of the recently proposed lightweight block ciphers (GIFT-COFB, Romulus, and TinyJAMBU) on the Arduino Due. We analyze data on each algorithm's performance using four metrics: average encryption and decryption execution time; throughput; power consumption; and memory utilization. Among our chosen ciphers, we find that TinyJAMBU and GIFT-COFB are excellent choices for resource-constrained IoT devices. |
| DOI | 10.1109/NILES56402.2022.9942373 |
| Citation Key | abdel-halim_evaluating_2022 |
Evaluating the Performance of Lightweight Block Ciphers for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices