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Enhancing speed of SIMON: A light-weight-cryptographic algorithm for IoT applications

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Multimedia communication is revolutionizing all major spheres of human life. The advent of IoT and its applications in many fields like sensing, healthcare and industry, result exponential increase in multimedia data, that needs to be shared over insecure networks. IoT driven setups are however constrained in terms of resources as a result of their small size. From data security point of view a conventional algorithms cannot be used for data encryption on an IoT platform given the resource constraints. The work presented in this paper studies the performance of SIMON cryptographic algorithm and proposes a light-weight-cryptography algorithm based on SIMON for its possible use in an IoT driven setup. The focus is on speed enhancement benefitting from software prospective, making it different than common studies mostly reflecting hardware implementations. To achieve performance in practical prospective, the contribution looks into SIMON cipher’s characteristics considering utilizing it for internet of things (IoT) healthcare applications. The paper suggests further improvement to implement the original SIMON cryptography in order to reduce the encryption time and maintain the practical trade-off between security and performance. The proposed work has been compared to Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and the original SIMON block cipher algorithms in terms of execution time, memory consumption. The results show that the proposed work is suitable for securing data in an IoT driven setup.

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The authors acknowledge all support provided by Umm Al-Qura University (UQU) for encouraging this research work. Special thanks goes to the cooperation between the two UQU departments via Prof. Adnan Gutub from Computer Engineering and Dr Manal Al Ghamdi from Computer Sciences for motivating this research as well as building international collaboration with Dr Shabir Parah from the department of Electronics and IT, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, all working in collaboration on this wonderful research contributions.

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    Norah Alassaf & Adnan Gutub

  2. Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, JK, India

    Shabir A. Parah

  3. Department of Computer Sciences, Umm AL-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

    Manal Al Ghamdi

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Alassaf, N., Gutub, A., Parah, S.A. et al. Enhancing speed of SIMON: A light-weight-cryptographic algorithm for IoT applications. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 32633–32657 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6801-z

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