lightweight cryptography documentation

Lightweight Cryptography

Lightweight cryptography has been a very hot topic for the last few years, driven by the lack of primitives capable to run on devices with very low computing power. We can think for instance of RFID tags, sensors in wireless sensor network or, more generally, small internet-enabled appliances expected to flood the markets as the Internet of Things (IoT) arises.

What is Lightweight Cryptography?

At the core of lightweight cryptography is a trade-off between lightweightness and security: how can we reach high levels of security using only a small computing power? Many cryptographers have addressed these issues by suggesting lightweight streamciphers, blockciphers, hashfunction and recently one-pass authenticated encryption. We provide a discussion on the meaning of lightweightness in the following page.

https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Cryptography

see 'Lightweight Cryptography Lounge' and  'Software Implementation' sections

(highly recommended)

selected: https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Block_Ciphers

a comprehensive documents by  Professor Alex Biryukov ( head of CryptoLUX)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tP5rH0wAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Alex_Biryukov

Lightweight Cryptography

Lightweight cryptography has been a very hot topic for the last few years, driven by the lack of primitives capable to run on devices with very low computing power. We can think for instance of RFID tags, sensors in wireless sensor network or, more generally, small internet-enabled appliances expected to flood the markets as the Internet of Things (IoT) arises.

What is Lightweight Cryptography?

At the core of lightweight cryptography is a trade-off between lightweightness and security: how can we reach high levels of security using only a small computing power? Many cryptographers have addressed these issues by suggesting lightweight streamciphers, blockciphers, hashfunction and recently one-pass authenticated encryption. We provide a discussion on the meaning of lightweightness in the following page.

https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Cryptography

see 'Lightweight Cryptography Lounge' and  'Software Implementation' sections

(highly recommended)

selected: https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Block_Ciphers

a comprehensive documents by  Professor Alex Biryukov ( head of CryptoLUX)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tP5rH0wAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Alex_Biryukov

Lightweight ciphers

Lightweight cryptography - section of cryptography, which aims at the development of algorithms for use in devices that are not able to provide most of the existing codes and have sufficient resources (memory, power, size) for the operation.

The use of lightweight cryptography

Most modern algorithms designed for use as part of a computer software systems without hardware optimization software. This fact makes it impossible to use most of existing cryptographic algorithms in devices with limited processing power, small volume and low power consumption. Methods of cryptographic protection of data in systems with low cost became the basis of lightweight cryptography.

Lightweight cryptography becomes relevant in the situation with "Internet of Things", which is a wireless self-configuring network between objects of different classes, that can include appliances, vehicles, smart sensors and RFID-tags (RFID).

Often developers of lightweight algorithms are forced to choose between the two, sometimes mutually particular requirements for algorithms: safety, cost and productivity. In practice, it is easy to optimize any two of the three design goals: safety and cost, safety and productivity or the cost and performance, but it is very difficult to optimize all three design goals simultaneously. In this regard, there are many implementations of lightweight cryptography algorithms: both software and hardware. They have different and sometimes conflicting characteristics.

http://cryptowiki.net/index.php?title=Lightweight_ciphers

http://cryptowiki.net/index.php?title=Lightweight_block_ciphers

http://cryptowiki.net/index.php?title=Lightweight_stream_ciphers

wolfssl :  lightweight SSL/TLS library | Embedded SSL Library

for Applications, Devices, IoT, and the Cloud Providing secure communication for IoT, smart grid, connected home, automobiles, routers, applications, games, IP, mobile phones, the cloud, and more.

wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL or yet another SSL) is a small, portable, embedded SSL/TLS library targeted for use by embedded systems developers

https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfSSL/Home.html

https://wolfssl.com/wolfSSL/download/downloadForm.php

http://ece.gmu.edu/coursewebpages/ECE/ECE646/F14/project/F11_Project_Resources/Peris_Lopez_PhD.pdf

Ph.D. THESIS

Lightweight Cryptography in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Systems

'An initial study and analysis of the state of the art identifies the need for lightweight cryptographic solutions suitable for these very constrained devices. From a purely theoretical point of view, standard cryptographic solutions may be a correct approach. However, standard cryptographic primitives (hash functions, message authentication codes, block/stream ciphers, etc.) are quite demanding in terms of circuit size, power consumption and memory size, so they make costly solutions for low-cost RFID tags. Lightweight cryptography is therefore a pressing need.'

the degree of Doctor in Engineering-2015

Lightweight PUF-based Key and Random Number Generation

https://securewww.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/thesis-254.pdf

Physical unclonable function:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_unclonable_function

http://www.nxp.com/documents/other/75017366.pdf