Encryption Algorithms in IoT: Security vs Lifetime

Kuzminykh, I. and Yevdokymenko, M. and Sokolov, V. Y. (2023) Encryption Algorithms in IoT: Security vs Lifetime Social Science Research Network. pp. 1-21. ISSN 1556-5068

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Abstract

IoT devices are inherently limited by their processing capabilities and power capacity. While aiming to maximise their lifespan, one of the biggest challenges they face is to reduce the computational burden, especially for tasks such as encryption, data transmission, or compression. This paper investigates the lifespan of an IoT device transmitting encrypted data as a function of the encryption algorithm used and the packet length. We focus the analysis particularly on lightweight algorithms popular in IoT ecosystems, such as AES, XTEA, HIGHT, KLEIN, ECC, PRESENT, Serpent, Piccolo, Blowfish, and Twofish. The results of the study indicate that the type of data encryption used for transmission has a significant impact on the IoT device lifetime, together with the data length and the input parameters used. To summarise, the Piccolo algorithm is the most energy-efficient, leading to maximum lifetime and low power consumption, followed by AES, XTEA, and KLEIN. At the other end of the spectrum, ECC, Blowfish, Twofish, PRESENT, and Serpent have high power consumption, hence they should be less preferred for the device-to-device or device-to-gateway IoT communication. Aside from the acknowledged energy efficiency of ciphers based on substitution-permutation operations versus Feistel ones, the results show that algorithms of first group, such as Serpent and PRESENT, require significant encryption and decryption times, while Feistel ciphers such as Piccolo, XTEA and HEIGHT are notably fast.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 10.2139/ssrn.4636161
Uncontrolled Keywords: IoT communication model; lightweight cipher; encryption; power consumption; energy efficiency
Subjects: Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у журналах > Інші (не входять ні до фахових, ні до наукометричних баз)
Divisions: Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет інформаційних технологій та математики > Кафедра інформаційної та кібернетичної безпеки імені професора Володимира Бурячка
Depositing User: Volodymyr Sokolov
Date Deposited: 12 Dec 2023 13:30
Last Modified: 12 Dec 2023 14:07
URI: https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/47790

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