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A Survey of Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms for IoT-Based Applications

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Lightweight crypstographic algorithms are powerful and secure algorithms which are equipped with leading-edge innovation like RFID or Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) or quickly developing Internet of Things (IoT). They are lightweight in terms of power utilization, clock cycles, and speed, etc., and are easy to implement on constraint or ultra-constraint hardware devices like FPGA’s or RFID labels. This paper indicates a concise knowledge of IoT, and lightweight and implemented algorithms compare the performed cryptographic algorithms and yield a proficient conclusion in terms of security, reliance, speed, memory and throughput, applications, and so forth. Thus, optimized algorithms relying upon the platform utilized can search through the scrutinized list.

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Shah, A., Engineer, M. (2019). A Survey of Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms for IoT-Based Applications. In: Tiwari, S., Trivedi, M., Mishra, K., Misra, A., Kumar, K. (eds) Smart Innovations in Communication and Computational Sciences. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 851. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2414-7_27

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