WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Smart Devices
Lightweight cryptographic primitives are essential for securing pervasive embedded devices like RFID tags, smart cards, and wireless sensor nodes. In this paper, we present a lightweight stream cipher WG-8, which is tailored from the well-known Welch-Gong (WG) stream cipher family, for resource-cons...
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| description | Lightweight cryptographic primitives are essential for securing pervasive embedded devices like RFID tags, smart cards, and wireless sensor nodes. In this paper, we present a lightweight stream cipher WG-8, which is tailored from the well-known Welch-Gong (WG) stream cipher family, for resource-constrained devices. WG-8 inherits the good randomness and cryptographic properties of the WG stream cipher family and is resistant to the most common attacks against stream ciphers. The software implementations of the WG-8 stream cipher on two popular low-power microcontrollers as well as the extensive comparison with other lightweight cryptography implementations highlight that in the context of securing lightweight embedded applications WG-8 has favorable performance and low energy consumption. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c507d9c9fd784125adbd40cd2b20d09a2022-12-22T03:38:10ZengEuropean Alliance for Innovation (EAI)EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety2032-93932015-01-012311310.4108/sesa.2.3.e4WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Smart DevicesXinxin Fan0Kalikinkar Mandal1Guang Gong2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, CANADA; x5fan@uwaterloo.caDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, CANADADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, CANADALightweight cryptographic primitives are essential for securing pervasive embedded devices like RFID tags, smart cards, and wireless sensor nodes. In this paper, we present a lightweight stream cipher WG-8, which is tailored from the well-known Welch-Gong (WG) stream cipher family, for resource-constrained devices. WG-8 inherits the good randomness and cryptographic properties of the WG stream cipher family and is resistant to the most common attacks against stream ciphers. The software implementations of the WG-8 stream cipher on two popular low-power microcontrollers as well as the extensive comparison with other lightweight cryptography implementations highlight that in the context of securing lightweight embedded applications WG-8 has favorable performance and low energy consumption.http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/sesa.2.3.e4Lightweight stream cipherresource-constrained smart devicecryptanalysisefficient implementation |
| spellingShingle | Xinxin Fan Kalikinkar Mandal Guang Gong WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Smart Devices EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety Lightweight stream cipher resource-constrained smart device cryptanalysis efficient implementation |
| title | WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Smart Devices |
| title_full | WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Smart Devices |
| title_fullStr | WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Smart Devices |
| title_full_unstemmed | WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Smart Devices |
| title_short | WG-8: A Lightweight Stream Cipher for Resource-Constrained Smart Devices |
| title_sort | wg 8 a lightweight stream cipher for resource constrained smart devices |
| topic | Lightweight stream cipher resource-constrained smart device cryptanalysis efficient implementation |
| url | http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/sesa.2.3.e4 |
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