Abstract
This paper investigates the performance of three lightweight authenticated ciphers namely ACE, SPIX and WAGE in the WiFi and CoAP handshaking authentication protocols. We implement the WiFi and CoAP handshake protocols and the IEEE802.11a physical layer communication protocol in software defined radio (SDR) and embed these two handshaking protocols into the IEEE802.11a OFDM communication protocol to measure the performance of three ciphers. We present the construction of KDF and MIC used in the handshaking authentication protocols and provide optimized implementations of ACE, SPIX and WAGE including KDF and MIC on three different (low-power) microcontrollers. The performance results of these three ciphers when adopted in WiFi and CoAP protocols are presented. Our experimental results show that the cryptographic functionalities are the bottleneck in the handshaking and data protection protocols.
Yunjie Yi is now with Huawei Canada, Waterloo and the work was done when he was with University of Waterloo.
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The research of Yunjie Yi and Guang Gong, and partial work of Kalikinkar Mandal were supported by NSERC SPG and Discovery Grants. The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their insightful comments to improve the quality of the paper.
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Yi, Y., Mandal, K., Gong, G. (2022). Implementation of Lightweight Ciphers and Their Integration into Entity Authentication with IEEE 802.11 Physical Layer Transmission. In: Aïmeur, E., Laurent, M., Yaich, R., Dupont, B., Garcia-Alfaro, J. (eds) Foundations and Practice of Security. FPS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13291. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08147-7_8
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