IoT Authentication in Cryptography
A special issue of Cryptography (ISSN 2410-387X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 21970
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cryptology; cryptanalysis; cryptography; symmetric ciphers; stream ciphers; authenticated encryption
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Dear Colleagues,
Secure communications require authentication of communicating entities; assuring each party of the identity of other communicating parties, to avoid manipulation by malicious actors. Achieving this goal for small devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) is extremely challenging, not only because of inherently limited computing power, but also because of the widespread use of vendor specific communication applications and special purpose, rather than general purpose, computing components. Given this situation, the task of authenticating multiple communicating devices based on different hardware, firmware and software and equipped with limited resources represents a major challenge. Solutions that are generalisable, suitable for use with little or no human intervention, and efficient enough for implementation in very resource constrained devices, are needed.
In this Special Issue, we will focus on cryptographic algorithms for providing authentication of devices in the future IoT. Aspects of interest include, but are not limited to:
- new generalisable lightweight cryptographic authentication algorithms,
- algorithms providing additional security services, such as Authenticated Encryption (AE) and Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD)
- security analysis of existing authentication algorithms and algorithm implementations
- efficiency analysis of existing authentication algorithms
- tradeoffs between security and efficiency in algorithm design and implementation
Dr. Leonie Simpson
Dr. Harry Bartlett
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Authentication
- Authenticated encryption (AE)
- Cryptanalysis
- Efficient implementation
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