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  • Open Access
983 Views
62 Pages

This paper presents TALOS, a unified reusable 6G CryptoProcessor architecture for high-assurance symmetric security services under a 256-bit private-key baseline. The design addresses a core hardware challenge in future mobile systems: supporting het...

(This article belongs to the Topic Trends and Prospects in Security, Encryption and Encoding: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,950 Views
19 Pages

25 November 2023

The advancement of quantum computing threatens the security of conventional public-key cryptosystems. Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) was introduced to ensure data confidentiality in communication channels, and various algorithms are being developed....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Architectures, Protocols and Algorithms of Sensor Networks—Second Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,302 Views
15 Pages

In the Internet of Things (IoT), many strong constraints have to be considered when designing the connected objects, including low cost and low power, thus limited resources. The confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data must however be ensured...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,410 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient Crypto Processor Architecture for Side-Channel Resistant Binary Huff Curves on FPGA

  • Usama Umer,
  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Adel R. Alharbi,
  • Ahmed Alhomoud,
  • Harish Kumar and
  • Atif Raza Jafri

This article presents an efficient crypto processor architecture for point multiplication acceleration of side-channel secured Binary Huff Curves (BHC) on FPGA (field-programmable gate array) over GF(2233). We have implemented six finite field polyno...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,834 Views
19 Pages

An Embedded Sensor Node Microcontroller with Crypto-Processors

  • Goran Panić,
  • Oliver Stecklina and
  • Zoran Stamenković

27 April 2016

Wireless sensor network applications range from industrial automation and control, agricultural and environmental protection, to surveillance and medicine. In most applications, data are highly sensitive and must be protected from any type of attack...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,646 Views
16 Pages

Area-Efficient Realization of Binary Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication Processor for Cryptographic Applications

  • Amer Aljaedi,
  • Sajjad Shaukat Jamal,
  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Adel R. Alharbi,
  • Mohammed Alotaibi and
  • Dalal J. Alanazi

10 June 2023

This paper proposes a novel hardware design for a compact crypto processor devoted to elliptic-curve point multiplication over GF(2233). We focus on minimizing hardware usage, which we obtain using an iterative bit–serial finite field modular m...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,376 Views
12 Pages

A high efficiency architecture for ring learning with errors (ring-LWE) cryptoprocessor using shared arithmetic components is presented in this paper. By applying a novel approach for sharing number theoretic transform (NTT) polynomial multiplier and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue System-on-Chip (SoC) Design and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,195 Views
16 Pages

Elliptic-Curve Crypto Processor for RFID Applications

  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Sajjad Shaukat Jamal,
  • Sikandar Zulqarnain Khan,
  • Adel R. Alharbi,
  • Amer Aljaedi and
  • Malik Imran

31 July 2021

This work presents an Elliptic-curve Point Multiplication (ECP) architecture with a focus on low latency and low area for radio-frequency-identification (RFID) applications over GF(2163). To achieve low latency, we have reduced the clock cycles by us...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,478 Views
20 Pages

8 January 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that forms a huge network of different objects and intelligent devices. IoT Security is becoming more important due to the exchange of sensitive sensor data and the potential for incorporating th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Codes, Designs, Cryptography and Optimization, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,997 Views
16 Pages

Armed with Faster Crypto: Optimizing Elliptic Curve Cryptography for ARM Processors

  • Ruben De Smet,
  • Robrecht Blancquaert,
  • Tom Godden,
  • Kris Steenhaut and
  • An Braeken

5 February 2024

Elliptic curve cryptography is a widely deployed technology for securing digital communication. It is the basis of many cryptographic primitives such as key agreement protocols, digital signatures, and zero-knowledge proofs. Fast elliptic curve crypt...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,430 Views
13 Pages

This paper presents a novel architecture for ring learning with errors (LWE) cryptoprocessors using an efficient approach in encryption and decryption operations. By scheduling multipliers to work in parallel, the encryption and decryption time are s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue VLSI Architecture Design for Digital Signal Processing)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
10,571 Views
20 Pages

Secure Elliptic Curve Crypto-Processor for Real-Time IoT Applications

  • Stefano Di Matteo,
  • Luca Baldanzi,
  • Luca Crocetti,
  • Pietro Nannipieri,
  • Luca Fanucci and
  • Sergio Saponara

1 August 2021

Cybersecurity is a critical issue for Real-Time IoT applications since high performance and low latencies are required, along with security requirements to protect the large number of attack surfaces to which IoT devices are exposed. Elliptic Curve C...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,498 Views
22 Pages

Design Methodology and Metrics for Robust and Highly Qualified Security Modules in Trusted Environments

  • Luca Crocetti,
  • Pietro Nannipieri,
  • Stefano Di Matteo and
  • Sergio Saponara

30 November 2023

Cyberattacks and cybercriminal activities constitute one of the biggest threats in the modern digital era, and the frequency, efficiency, and severity of attacks have grown over the years. Designers and producers of digital systems try to counteract...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,275 Views
15 Pages

Integrated Dynamic Power Management Strategy with a Field Programmable Gate Array-Based Cryptoprocessor System for Secured Internet-of-Medical Things Networks

  • Javier Vázquez-Castillo,
  • Daniel Visairo,
  • Ramón Atoche-Enseñat,
  • Alejandro Castillo-Atoche,
  • Renán Quijano-Cetina,
  • Carolina Del-Valle-Soto,
  • Jaime Ortegón-Aguilar and
  • Johan J. Estrada-López

Advancements in electronics and sensor technologies are driving the deployment of ubiquitous sensor networks across various applications, including asset monitoring, security, and networking. At the same time, ensuring the integrity and confidentiali...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Perpetual Sensor Nodes for Sustainable Wireless Network Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,301 Views
16 Pages

Throughput/Area-Efficient Accelerator of Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication over GF(2233) on FPGA

  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Omar S. Sonbul,
  • Muhammad Yousuf Irfan Zia,
  • Muhammad Arif,
  • Asher Sajid and
  • Saud S. Alotaibi

26 August 2023

This paper presents a throughput/area-efficient hardware accelerator architecture for elliptic curve point multiplication (ECPM) computation over GF(2233). The throughput of the proposed accelerator design is optimized by reducing the total clock cyc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,838 Views
14 Pages

Large Field-Size Elliptic Curve Processor for Area-Constrained Applications

  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Omar S. Sonbul,
  • Muhammad Yousuf Irfan Zia,
  • Nadeem Kafi,
  • Mohammed H. Sinky and
  • Muhammad Arif

17 January 2023

This article has proposed an efficient area-optimized elliptic curve cryptographic processor architecture over GF(2409) and GF(2571). The proposed architecture employs Lopez-Dahab projective point arithmetic operations. To do this, a hybrid Karatsuba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,092 Views
14 Pages

AREEBA: An Area Efficient Binary Huff-Curve Architecture

  • Asher Sajid,
  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Sajjad Shaukat Jamal,
  • Malik Imran,
  • Saud S. Alotaibi and
  • Mohammed H. Sinky

Elliptic curve cryptography is the most widely employed class of asymmetric cryptography algorithm. However, it is exposed to simple power analysis attacks due to the lack of unifiedness over point doubling and addition operations. The unified crypto...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,985 Views
16 Pages

Convolutional Neural Network-Based Cryptography Ransomware Detection for Low-End Embedded Processors

  • Hyunji Kim,
  • Jaehoon Park,
  • Hyeokdong Kwon,
  • Kyoungbae Jang and
  • Hwajeong Seo

24 March 2021

A crypto-ransomware has the process to encrypt victim’s files. Afterward, the crypto-ransomware requests a ransom for the password of encrypted files to victims. In this paper, we present a novel approach to prevent crypto-ransomware by detecting blo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Mitigation Techniques for Network and Cyber Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,024 Views
18 Pages

Throughput/Area Optimized Architecture for Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman Protocol

  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Harish Kumar,
  • Sikandar Zulqarnain Khan,
  • Ismail Bahkali,
  • Ahmed Alhomoud and
  • Zahid Mehmood

18 April 2022

This paper presents a high-speed and low-area accelerator architecture for shared key generation using an elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman protocol over GF(2233). Concerning the high speed, the proposed architecture employs a two-stage pipelining and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
543 Views
16 Pages

Security Interface for Execution Control from a Tightly Coupled Security Core

  • Stefan Ivanov Stoyanov,
  • Maria Plamenova Marinova and
  • Nikolay Rumenov Kakanakov

28 February 2026

Preserving critical data, preventing unauthorized access, and securing communication are aspects of information security. Implementing them as hardware is more reliable than software. There are various hardware solutions that suggest using a separate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Cyber Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,342 Views
21 Pages

In today’s era of technology, where information is readily available anytime and from anywhere, safeguarding our privacy and sensitive data is more important than ever. The thermal sensors embedded within a CPU are primarily utilized for monito...

(This article belongs to the Section Security Engineering & Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,911 Views
18 Pages

DITES: A Lightweight and Flexible Dual-Core Isolated Trusted Execution SoC Based on RISC-V

  • Yuehai Chen,
  • Huarun Chen,
  • Shaozhen Chen,
  • Chao Han,
  • Wujian Ye,
  • Yijun Liu and
  • Huihui Zhou

10 August 2022

A Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is an efficient way to secure information. To obtain higher efficiency, the building of a dual-core system-on-chip (SoC) with TEE security capabilities is the hottest topic. However, TEE SoCs currently commonly u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging IT Security Technologies in the Computer Systems: Network Security and Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,806 Views
14 Pages

28 June 2020

Along with the recent growth of Internet of Things (IoT) security camera market, there have been a number of personal information leakage incidents from security attacks targeting such cameras. Therefore, a permutation-based video encryption algorith...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Data Processing, Privacy and Security Challenges for Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,286 Views
29 Pages

A Holistic Systems Security Approach Featuring Thin Secure Elements for Resilient IoT Deployments

  • Soodamani Ramalingam,
  • Hock Gan,
  • Gregory Epiphaniou and
  • Emilio Mistretta

14 September 2020

IoT systems differ from traditional Internet systems in that they are different in scale, footprint, power requirements, cost and security concerns that are often overlooked. IoT systems inherently present different fail-safe capabilities than tradit...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,446 Views
10 Pages

Area-Time Efficient Hardware Architecture for CRYSTALS-Kyber

  • Tuy Tan Nguyen,
  • Sungjae Kim,
  • Yongjun Eom and
  • Hanho Lee

24 May 2022

This paper presents a novel area-time efficient hardware architecture of the lattice-based CRYSTALS-Kyber, which has entered the third round of the post-quantum cryptography standardization competition hosted by the National Institute of Standards an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Cybersecurity and Computer Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,890 Views
15 Pages

Cryptographic primitives nowadays are not only implemented in high-performance systems but also in small-scale systems, which are increasingly powered by open-source processors, such as RISC-V. In this work, we leverage RISC-V’s modular base in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Hardware Security II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,367 Views
24 Pages

A Trusted Execution Environment RISC-V System-on-Chip Compatible with Transport Layer Security 1.3

  • Binh Kieu-Do-Nguyen,
  • Khai-Duy Nguyen,
  • Tuan-Kiet Dang,
  • Nguyen The Binh,
  • Cuong Pham-Quoc,
  • Ngoc-Thinh Tran,
  • Cong-Kha Pham and
  • Trong-Thuc Hoang

The Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is designed to establish a safe environment that prevents the execution of unauthenticated programs. The nature of TEE is a continuous verification process with hashing, signing, and verifying. Such a process i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue System-on-Chip (SoC) and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,758 Views
22 Pages

Unified Compact ECC-AES Co-Processor with Group-Key Support for IoT Devices in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Luis Parrilla,
  • Encarnación Castillo,
  • Juan A. López-Ramos,
  • José A. Álvarez-Bermejo,
  • Antonio García and
  • Diego P. Morales

16 January 2018

Security is a critical challenge for the effective expansion of all new emerging applications in the Internet of Things paradigm. Therefore, it is necessary to define and implement different mechanisms for guaranteeing security and privacy of data in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Trust and Privacy for Sensor Networks)