Analysis of the NTRU Post-Quantum Cryptographic Scheme in Constrained IoT Edge Devices
Analysis of the NTRU Post-Quantum Cryptographic Scheme in Constrained IoT Edge Devices
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受限物联网边缘设备中的 NTRU 后量子加密方案分析
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
10.6
通讯作者：
Gabriel Mujica
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作者：
Jaime Señor;J. Portilla;Gabriel Mujica
后量子密码学的研究旨在解决现代公钥密码学被未来量子计算机的攻击以及经典电子学的攻击所破解的问题。这项任务非常重要，以至于美国国家标准与技术研究院 (NIST) 正处于标准化后量子方案的最后阶段，以保护未来的嵌入式应用。尽管在嵌入式系统上进行了一些研究工作，但研究这些建议在物联网 (IoT) 现实环境中的影响非常重要，在物联网 (IoT) 中，有限的计算资源和严格的功耗要求可能与加密方案的使用不兼容。在这项工作中，我们研究了名为 NTRU 的标准化流程决赛入围者之一的性能，并在专为物联网最边缘应用而设计的定制无线传感器节点中实现。密码系统在 Contiki-NG 操作系统的进程中实施和评估。此外，还进行了额外的实验，以检查现代微控制器内部加密的通用集成硬件外设是否可用于通过 NTRU 实现更好的性能，不仅在单节点级别，而且在网络级别，其中 NTRU 密钥封装机制在真实通信过程中进行测试。这些实验的结果表明，NTRU 适用于针对无线传感器网络设计的现代微控制器，而流行平台中的旧设备可能无法承担其实施成本。
Research on post-quantum cryptography aims to solve the problematic of modern public-key cryptography being broken by attacks coming from quantum computers in the future and, moreover, by using classical electronics. This task is so critical that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is in the final process of standardizing post-quantum schemes for the future protection of embedded applications. Though there are some research work done on embedded systems, it is important to study the impact of these proposals in realistic environments for the Internet of Things (IoT), where the limited computational resources and the strict requirements for power consumption can become incompatible with the usage of cryptographic schemes. In this work, the performance of one of the finalists of the standardization process called NTRU is studied and implemented in a custom wireless sensor node designed for applications in the extreme edge of the IoT. The cryptosystem is implemented and evaluated within the processes of the Contiki-NG operating system. Furthermore, additional experiments are performed to check if commonly integrated hardware peripherals for cryptography inside modern microcontrollers can be used to achieve better performance with NTRU, not only at the single node level but also at the network level, where the NTRU key encapsulation mechanism is tested in a real communication process. The results derived from these experiments show that NTRU is suitable for modern microcontrollers targeting wireless sensor networks design, while old devices present in popular platforms might not afford the cost of its implementation.
DOI：
10.1109/icccn52240.2021.9522179
发表时间：
2021
期刊：
International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN
影响因子：
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作者：
Raavi, Manohar;Chandramouli, Pranav;Wuthier, Simeon;Zhou, Xiaobo;Chang, Sang-Yoon
通讯作者：
Chang, Sang-Yoon