Lightweight Cryptography for Internet of Insecure Things: A Survey

Abstract

This paper surveys Lightweight Cryptographic solutions for Internet of Things (IoT). This survey covers comprehensively a flow of security measures from Lightweight Cryptographic solutions to comparison among different types of block ciphers. It also includes comparison between Hardware vs Software solutions and different recent approaches of the most trusted and researched block cipher, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in terms of architecture, Mix-Column/S-box modify strategy and attacks for IoT security. According to the study, lightweight AES has proved to be a good security solution for constrained IoT devices.