A review on performance evaluation criteria and tools for lightweight block ciphers

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) has become a powerful paradigm that has made significant progress in almost all areas. It has attracted worldwide attention in the smart computing environment. Security is considered as one of the most important concerns of constraint end nodes. Providing solutions to these resource constraint devices through ordinary cryptographic solutions is not sufficient. To fulfill this gap, a relatively new field of cryptography called lightweight cryptography came into existence. Besides, ISO/IEC provides various standards related to ICT. There are several parameters for both hardware and software implementations that are set to assess the ciphers. This paper presents criteria posed by these standards that can be considered by a cipher designer so as to include cipher in this standard. A software implementation of security algorithms consider some evaluation parameters. Such performance evaluation criteria, some metrics and performance evaluation tools relevant in this context are also presented in this paper.