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Robust Hybrid Lightweight Cryptosystem for Protecting IoT Smart Devices

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Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage (SpaCCS 2019)

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There are limited numbers of reliable hybrid cryptosystems that can be used to protect IoT smart devices, specifically in smart cities, smart hospitals, smart homes, and industrial fields. Therefore, much related work has to be performed. The aim is to study the trade-off between performance and security in these constrained environments and to achieve more secure hybrid cryptosystem with high demanded performance. Several types of recommended lightweight encryption algorithms will be investigated. These hybrid cryptosystems combine symmetric encryption algorithms such as TEA, XTEA, XXTEA, and asymmetric encryption algorithms such as RSA and ECC. They have the capability to protect IoT smart devices from internet attacks. They can efficiently achieve confidentiality, authenticity, integrity, and non-repudiation. Comparative analysis and evaluation are achieved; hence a robust hybrid cryptosystem was proposed. It uses chaotic theory to generate random keys. The analysis included the most important factors that have to be tackled in case of using lightweight ciphers to suit limited resources of IoT smart devices. Among these factors are security level, memory size, power consumption, encryption time, decryption time, and throughput. Results show that the proposed hybrid cryptosystem that combined ECC and XXTEA gives better security and higher performance than RSA and XXTEA with 40%.

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    Ahmed Ragab, Gamal Selim, Abdelmoniem Wahdan & Ahmed Madani

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Ragab, A., Selim, G., Wahdan, A., Madani, A. (2019). Robust Hybrid Lightweight Cryptosystem for Protecting IoT Smart Devices. In: Wang, G., Feng, J., Bhuiyan, M., Lu, R. (eds) Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage. SpaCCS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24900-7_1

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