scholarly journals An Embedded System for Practical Security Analysis of Contactless Smartcards

Author(s):  
Timo Kasper ◽  
Dario Carluccio ◽  
Christof Paar
Author(s):  
Kundankumar Rameshwar Saraf ◽  
Malathi P. Jesudason

This chapter explores the encryption techniques used for the internet of things (IoT). The security algorithm used for IoT should follow many constraints of an embedded system. Hence, lightweight cryptography is an optimum security solution for IoT devices. This chapter mainly describes the need for security in IoT, the concept of lightweight cryptography, and various cryptographic algorithms along with their shortcomings given IoT. This chapter also describes the principle of operation of all the above algorithms along with their security analysis. Moreover, based on the algorithm size (i.e., the required number of gate equivalent, block size, key size, throughput, and execution speed of the algorithm), the chapter reports the comparative analysis of their performance. The chapter discusses the merits and demerits of these algorithms along with their use in the IoT system.


Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Flores-Vergara ◽  
Everardo Inzunza-González ◽  
Enrique García-Guerrero ◽  
Oscar López-Bonilla ◽  
Eduardo Rodríguez-Orozco ◽  
...  

Profiling and parallel computing techniques in a cluster of six embedded systems with multiprocessors are introduced herein to implement a chaotic cryptosystem for digital color images. The proposed encryption method is based on stream encryption using a pseudo-random number generator with high-precision arithmetic and data processing in parallel with collective communication. The profiling and parallel computing techniques allow discovery of the optimal number of processors that are necessary to improve the efficiency of the cryptosystem. That is, the processing speed improves the time for generating chaotic sequences and execution of the encryption algorithm. In addition, the high numerical precision reduces the digital degradation in a chaotic system and increases the security levels of the cryptosystem. The security analysis confirms that the proposed cryptosystem is secure and robust against different attacks that have been widely reported in the literature. Accordingly, we highlight that the proposed encryption method is potentially feasible to be implemented in practical applications, such as modern telecommunication devices employing multiprocessors, e.g., smart phones, tablets, and in any embedded system with multi-core hardware.


2021 ◽  
Vol 257 ◽  
pp. 01006
Author(s):  
Kaicheng Liu ◽  
Ying Guo ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
Dezhi Li ◽  
Guixiong He

Regional integrated energy system (RIES) can realize multi-energy conversion and complementation so as to improve energy efficiency, which also brings more security risks. The regional integrated energy system security region (RIESSR) is a security analysis method to describe the safe area for the operating points of RIES based on the N-1 guideline. As a controllable device, energy storage (ES) which is installed in the energy hub (EH) plays an important role in improving system security. Therefore, this paper establishes the model of practical security region of RIES integrating energy storage, and studies the impact of ES on total supply capability (TSC) and practical security boundary. Finally, a specific case is set to simulate and verify the model. By comparing the scenario with ES and the scenario without ES, it can be seen that the solution result of TSC increases and the security region extends across quadrant when the RIES is integrated with ES system. The capacity and location of the ES also impact on TSC and RIESSR.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Ronghua Shi ◽  
Duan Huang

AbstractBy manipulating the reference pulses amplitude, a security vulnerability is caused by self-reference continuous-variable quantum key distribution. In this paper, we formalize an attack strategy for reference pulses, showing that the proposed attack can compromise the practical security of CVQKD protocol. In this scheme, before the beam splitter attack, Eve intercepts the reference pulses emitted by Alice, using Bayesian algorithm to estimate phase shifts. Subsequently, other reference pulses are re-prepared and resubmitted to Bob. In simulations, Bayesian algorithm effectively estimates the phase drifts and has the high robustness to noise. Therefore, the eavesdropper can bias the excess noise due to the intercept-resend attack and the beam splitter attack. And Alice and Bob believe that their excess noise is below the null key threshold and can still share a secret key. Consequently, the proposed attack shows that its practical security can be compromised by transmitting the reference pulses in the continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocol.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan S. Sushchev ◽  
Diana M. Guzairova ◽  
Andrey N. Klimov ◽  
Dmitriy A. Dvoretskiy ◽  
Sergey A. Bogdanov ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
pp. 298-308
Author(s):  
Berik Akhmetov ◽  
Sergiy Gnatyuk ◽  
Vasyl Kinzeryavyy ◽  
Khalicha Yubuzova

In up-to-date information and communication systems (ICS) cryptography is used for ensuring data confidentiality. The symmetric block ciphers (BC) are implemented in different ICS including critical applications. Today theory of analysis and security verification of BC with fixed substitution nodes against linear and differential cryptanalysis (LDC) is developed. There are also BC with substitution nodes defined by round keys. Random substitution nodes improve security of ciphers and complicate its cryptanalysis. But through it all, quantitative assessment is an actual and not simple task as well as the derivation of formulas for practical security verification for BC with random substitution nodes against LDC. In this paper analytical upper bounds of parameters characterized practical security of BC with random substitution nodes against LDC were given. These assessments generalize known analogs on BC with random substitution nodes and give a possibility to verify security improving against LDC. By using the example of BC Kalyna-128, it was shown that the use of random substitution nodes allows improving upper bounds of linear and differential parameters average probabilities in 246 and 290 times respectively. The study is novel as it is one of the few in the cryptology field to calculate analytical upper bounds of BC practical security against LDC methods as well as to show and prove that using random substitutions allows improving upper bounds of linear and differential parameters. The security analysis using quantitative parameters gives possibility to evaluate various BCs or other cryptographic algorithms and their ability to provide necessary and sufficient security level in ICS. A future research study can be directed on improving analytical upper bounds for analyzed LDC in context to practical security against LDC, as well as practical cryptographic security assessment for other BC with random substitutions against LDC and other cryptanalysis methods including quantum cryptanalysis (Shor, Grover, Deutsch-Jozsa algorithms).


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