Foundations and Design Principles of Lightweight Cryptography for IoT Systems

arXiv:2512.21368 · cs.CR · Submitted 2025-12-23 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2025-12-23

Updated: 2026-09-18

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

The gist: The successful deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications relies heavily on their robust security, and lightweight cryptography is considered an emerging solution in this context.

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The successful deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications relies heavily on their robust security, and lightweight cryptography is considered an emerging solution in this context. While existing surveys have been examining lightweight cryptographic techniques from the perspective of hardware and software implementations or performance evaluation, there is a significant gap in addressing different security aspects, such as design principles, specific to the IoT environment. This study aims to bridge this gap. This research presents an examination with focusing on the security evaluation of symmetric lightweight ciphers commonly used in IoT systems. The objective of this study is to provide a concise overview of lightweight ciphers with emphasizing on their security challenges which is an essential consideration for real-time and resource-constrained applications.

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