Essential Requirements of IoT’s Cryptographic Algorithms: Case Study

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasing rapidly in today’s world, but the security of devices remains a major concern due to the unavailability of the memory and processing power in these devices, which is because of their smaller size. The trade-off lies between security and performance, i.e. if security is increased, which will come with high complexity and hence would deter the performance. On the other hand, if performance has to be increased, it would come with a cost in terms of security. Also, IoT devices can be used as bots as they are globally accessible without much of a security. The most secure cryptographic algorithms use a lot of resources, and in case of IoT, resources are not available on that scale, so there is a need to design a secure algorithm (lightweight cryptography) that would use less resources and hence won’t affect the performance either.