Lightweight Encryption for the Low Powered IoT Devices
This survey addresses the problem of securing data for low-powered IoT devices, which is an incremental contribution to the field.
This paper surveys contemporary lightweight encryption algorithms suitable for low-powered IoT devices, addressing the challenge of securing data in the rapidly growing network of non-conventional internet-connected devices where traditional encryption methods are unsuitable.
The internet of things refers to the network of devices connected to the internet and can communicate with each other. The term things is to refer non-conventional devices that are usually not connected to the internet. The network of such devices or things is growing at an enormous rate. The security and privacy of the data flowing through these things is a major concern. The devices are low powered and the conventional encryption algorithms are not suitable to be employed on these devices. In this correspondence a survey of the contemporary lightweight encryption algorithms suitable for use in the IoT environment has been presented.