A Comparative Study on Lightweight Cryptography

The traditional cryptosystem only fulfills the requirements of desktop computing epoch. Renewable lightweight cryptography algorithms are developing to beat the constraints of traditional cryptosystem, which provide tradeoff among cipher sort, attack immune, key size, plaintext length, and performance. The implementation of LWC algorithms is carried out on retaining in the mind that it will be implemented in minimal power consumption, fewer area requirement and also enough efficiency so it turns out to be ideal for such a resource confine devices such as RFID tags and wireless sensor node. In this, we are trying to emerge with frequent LWC algorithms which are grouped into stream cipher, block cipher, and hybrid model, and also reveal them, at the last a comparison is conducted on the effective parameters.

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