Abstract:

The Internet of Things (IoT) market is growing exponentially, and automated smart solutions are revolutionizing a diverse range of areas with innovative technologies. The most critical and vital part of an IoT system that cannot be overlooked at any cost is its security. The security standards for IoT devices are not mature enough to provide foolproof security due to which incidents like privacy leakage take place almost every passing day, and there are still some implementations that manufacturers can incorporate to enhance the security by securing data transfer methods using cryptographic algorithms, keeping in view the resources available in low-end devices. Symmetric Key Cryptography, AEAD, is typically used in Low-end devices for confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of the data due to its less computational requirement. Still, the computation cost has started to increase significantly with the increase of data. In this scenario, ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD, also used by Google, is a suitable choice for IoT implementation for its security. For high-speed low-end communication devices, an optimized hardware accelerator or IP core can be designed and proposed to reduce costs from all perspectives significantly.

Evaluation Committee 

• Dr.  Muhammad Adeel Pasha (Supervisor)
• Dr.  Shahid Masud (Evaluator)