Extending the IEEE 802.15.4 Security Suite with a Compact Implementation of the NIST P-192/B-163 Elliptic Curves

Piedra, Antonio de la; Braeken, An; Touhafi, Abdellah

doi:10.3390/s130809704

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“…Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) has proven to be one of the best PKC alternatives for constrained applications [8,9,10,11,12,13] where multiple restrictions are also observed. Compared to other PKC systems, ECC features reduced key sizes for equivalent security levels [14].…”

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Energy/Area-Efficient Scalar Multiplication with Binary Edwards Curves for the IoT

Lara-Nino

Díaz-Pérez

Morales-Sandoval

2019

Sensors

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Making Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) available for the Internet of Things (IoT) and related technologies is a recent topic of interest. Modern IoT applications transfer sensitive information which needs to be protected. This is a difficult task due to the processing power and memory availability constraints of the physical devices. ECC mainly relies on scalar multiplication (kP)—which is an operation-intensive procedure. The broad majority of kP proposals in the literature focus on performance improvements and often overlook the energy footprint of the solution. Some IoT technologies—Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in particular—are critically sensitive in that regard. In this paper we explore energy-oriented improvements applied to a low-area scalar multiplication architecture for Binary Edwards Curves (BEC)—selected given their efficiency. The design and implementation costs for each of these energy-oriented techniques—in hardware—are reported. We propose an evaluation method for measuring the effectiveness of these optimizations. Under this novel approach, the energy-reducing techniques explored in this work contribute to achieving the scalar multiplication architecture with the most efficient area/energy trade-offs in the literature, to the best of our knowledge.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy/Area-Efficient Scalar Multiplication with Binary Edwards Curves for the IoT

Lara-Nino

Díaz-Pérez

Morales-Sandoval

2019

Sensors

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“…Generally, encryption algorithms are either asymmetric (public‐key) or symmetric. Asymmetric ciphers provide better security service compared with symmetric ciphers but require more complex operations and thus may end up with expensive design . As such, in order to obtain an optimized security design implementation for low resource devices, it is usually preferred to use symmetric ciphers.…”

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Modeling and optimization of the lightweight HIGHT block cipher design with FPGA implementation

Mohd

Hayajneh

Khalaf

et al. 2016

Security Comm Networks

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The growth of low‐resource devices has increased rapidly in recent years. Communication in such devices presents two challenges: security and resource limitation. Lightweight ciphers, such as HIGHT cipher, are encryption algorithms targeted for low resource systems. Designing lightweight ciphers in reconfigurable platform (e.g., field‐programmable gate array) provides speedup as well as flexibility. The HIGHT cipher consists of simple operations and provides adequate security level. The objective of this research work is to design, optimize, and model FPGA implementation of the HIGHT cipher. Several optimized designs are presented to minimize the required hardware resources and energy including the scalar and pipeline ones. Our analysis shows that the scalar designs have smaller area and power dissipation, whereas the pipeline designs have higher throughput and lower energy. Because of the fact that obtaining the best performance out of any implemented design mainly requires balancing the design area and energy, our experimental results demonstrate that it is possible to obtain such optimal performance using the pipeline design with two and four rounds per stage as well as with the scalar design with one and eight rounds. Comparing the best implementations of pipeline and scalar designs, the scalar design requires 18% less resources and 10% less power, while the pipeline design has 18 times higher throughput and 60% less energy consumption. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Since Version 1.2 of the TLS and the DTLS protocols, the support for the ECC has been introduced. The ECC has been embedded into the IEEE 802.15.4 standard using a hardware solution as presented in [ 11 ]. Furthermore, the authentication protocols for wireless sensors networks in [ 12 , 13 ], or [ 14 ] have been based on the ECC primitives to provide a high level of security with possibly the smallest resources requirements.…”

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Optimized ECC Implementation for Secure Communication between Heterogeneous IoT Devices

Marín

Pawlowski

Jara

2015

Sensors

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The Internet of Things is integrating information systems, places, users and billions of constrained devices into one global network. This network requires secure and private means of communications. The building blocks of the Internet of Things are devices manufactured by various producers and are designed to fulfil different needs. There would be no common hardware platform that could be applied in every scenario. In such a heterogeneous environment, there is a strong need for the optimization of interoperable security. We present optimized elliptic curve Cryptography algorithms that address the security issues in the heterogeneous IoT networks. We have combined cryptographic algorithms for the NXP/Jennic 5148- and MSP430-based IoT devices and used them to created novel key negotiation protocol.

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Extending the IEEE 802.15.4 Security Suite with a Compact Implementation of the NIST P-192/B-163 Elliptic Curves

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Energy/Area-Efficient Scalar Multiplication with Binary Edwards Curves for the IoT

Energy/Area-Efficient Scalar Multiplication with Binary Edwards Curves for the IoT

Modeling and optimization of the lightweight HIGHT block cipher design with FPGA implementation

Optimized ECC Implementation for Secure Communication between Heterogeneous IoT Devices

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