Date of Award

12-17-2019

Document Type

Dissertation

Publisher

Santa Clara : Santa Clara University, 2019

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Departments

Computer Science and Engineering

First Advisor

Behnam Dezfouli

Abstract

With the growing prevalence of the Internet of Things, securing the sheer abundance of devices is critical. The current IoT and security landscapes lack empirical metrics on encryption algorithm implementations that are optimized for constrained devices, such as encryption/decryption duration and energy consumption. In this paper, we achieve two things. First, we survey for optimized implementations of symmetric encryption algorithms. Seconds, we study the performance of various symmetric encryption algorithms on a Contiki-based IoT device. This paper provides encryption and decryption durations and energy consumption results on three implementations of AES: TinyAES, B-Con’s AES, and Contiki’s own built-in AES. In our experiments, we found the algorithms specifically built for constrained devices used about 0.16 the energy and time to perform encryption and decryption when compared to algorithm implementation that weren’t optimized for constrained devices.

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