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One round cipher algorithm for multimedia IoT devices

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With the exponential growth in Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, security and privacy issues have emerged as critical challenges that can potentially compromise their successful deployment in many data-sensitive applications. Hence, there is a pressing need to address these challenges, given that IoT systems suffer from different limitations, and IoT devices are constrained in terms of energy and computational power, which renders them extremely vulnerable to attacks. Traditional cryptographic algorithms use a static structure that requires several rounds of computations, which leads to significant overhead in terms of execution time and computational resources. Moreover, the problem is compounded when dealing with multimedia contents, since the associated algorithms have stringent QoS requirements. In this paper, we propose a lightweight cipher algorithm based on a dynamic structure with a single round that consists of simple operations, and that targets multimedia IoT. In this algorithm, a dynamic key is generated and then used to build two robust substitution tables, a dynamic permutation table, and two pseudo-random matrices. This dynamic cipher structure minimizes the number of rounds to a single one, while maintaining a high level of randomness and security. Moreover, the proposed cipher scheme is flexible as the dimensions of the input matrix can be selected to match the devices’ memory capacity. Extensive security tests demonstrated the robustness of the cipher against various kinds of attacks. The speed, simplicity and high-security level, in addition to low error propagation, make of this approach a good encryption candidate for multimedia IoT devices.

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This paper is partially supported with funds from the Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut and also from the Labex ACTION program (contract ANR-11-LABX-01-01).

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    Hassan Noura, Ali Chehab & Mohammad M. Mansour

  2. FEMTO-ST Institute, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC), Besançon, France

    Lama Sleem, Mohamad Noura & Raphaël Couturier

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Noura, H., Chehab, A., Sleem, L. et al. One round cipher algorithm for multimedia IoT devices. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 18383–18413 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-5660-y

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