Muhammad Fahad Khan^1,2,*, Khalid Saleem¹, Mohammed Alotaibi³, Mohammad Mazyad Hazzazi⁴, Eid Rehman², Aaqif Afzaal Abbasi², Muhammad Asif Gondal⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2679-2696, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027655

Abstract Internet of Things is an ecosystem of interconnected devices that are accessible through the internet. The recent research focuses on adding more smartness and intelligence to these edge devices. This makes them susceptible to various kinds of security threats. These edge devices rely on cryptographic techniques to encrypt the pre-processed data collected from the sensors deployed in the field. In this regard, block cipher has been one of the most reliable options through which data security is accomplished. The strength of block encryption algorithms against different attacks is dependent on its nonlinear primitive which is called Substitution Boxes. For the… More >

S. Nithya Devi^1,*, S. Sasipriya²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.2, pp. 423-437, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.022280

Abstract In real-time applications, unpredictable random numbers play a major role in providing cryptographic and encryption processes. Most of the existing random number generators are embedded with the complex nature of an amplifier, ring oscillators, or comparators. Hence, this research focused more on implementing a Hybrid Nature of a New Random Number Generator. The key objective of the proposed methodology relies on the utilization of True random number generators. The randomness is unpredictable. The additions of programmable delay lines will reduce the processing time and maintain the quality of randomizing. The performance comparisons are carried out with power, delay, and lookup… More >

T. Kowsalya¹, R. Ganesh Babu², B. D. Parameshachari³, Anand Nayyar⁴, Raja Majid Mehmood^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 1447-1465, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014606

Abstract Lightweight Cryptography (LWC) is widely used to provide integrity, secrecy and authentication for the sensitive applications. However, the LWC is vulnerable to various constraints such as high-power consumption, time consumption, and hardware utilization and susceptible to the malicious attackers. In order to overcome this, a lightweight block cipher namely PRESENT architecture is proposed to provide the security against malicious attacks. The True Random Number Generator-Pseudo Random Number Generator (TRNG-PRNG) based key generation is proposed to generate the unpredictable keys, being highly difficult to predict by the hackers. Moreover, the hardware utilization of PRESENT architecture is optimized using the Dual port… More >