A novel hybrid cellular automata based cipher system for internet of things

Abstract

High volume products for Internet of Things have a constricted cost that limit the cryptographic implementation in such devices. Thus, there is a need to design a lightweight cryptography stream cipher that can fit such low computation devices with low cost. This paper proposes a lightweight stream cipher that can enhance Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR), Feed Carry Shift Register (FCSR) within the Shrinking Generator stream cipher and used Cellular Automata (CA) to update the cipher stream. © 2014 Springer-Verlag.