Lightweight cryptography methods
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While our conventional cryptography methods, such for AES (encryption), SHA-256 (hashing) and RSA/Elliptic Curve (signing), work well on systems which have reasonable processing power and memory capabilities, these do not scale well into a world with embedded systems and sensor networks. Thus, lightweight cryptography methods are proposed to overcome many of the problems of conventional cryptography. This includes constraints related to physical size, processing requirements, memory limitation and energy drain. This paper outlines many of the techniques that are defined as replacements for conventional cryptography within an Internet of things space and discuss some trends in the design of lightweight algorithms.
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- Authors
- Buchanan, W. J., Li, S., & Asif, R.
- Affiliations
- Edinburgh Napier University (GB)
- University of the West of England (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Buchanan, William J.
- Venue
- Journal of Cyber Security Technology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-10
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 187-201
- ISSN
- 2374-2917 (ISSN-L)
- 2374-2925
- OpenAlex
- W2773336602
- Semantic Scholar
- 1ab0227e00d706c2d777393ee11d60a39fe22b1b
- Cited by
- 186
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 35 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 8.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Cyber Security Technology (publishedVersion)
- Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) (submittedVersion)
- UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Cryptographic Implementations and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Coding theory and cryptography
- Keywords
- lightweight cryptography, embedded systems, sensor networks, Internet of Things, resource-constrained devices, energy efficiency, lightweight algorithms, cryptographic algorithm design, hash functions, digital signatures
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