Performance Analysis of CLEFIA, PICCOLO, TWINE Lightweight Block Ciphers in IoT Environment

摘要

With the rapid evolution of Internet of Things, there increased a necessity for strong data security crypto ciphers which would operate successfully in constrained device environments. So, the design of lightweight block crypto ciphers has been a very dynamic research topic in the recent years. This paper outlines the performance analysis of three generalized Feistel lightweight block crypto ciphers - CLEFIA, PICCOLO and TWINE on a STM32F401RE Microcontroller (MCU). Analysis of these crypto ciphers is evaluated by considering various benchmark parameters like energy and memory consumption, throughput, and execution time. All these metrics are tested with different key sizes provided by each crypto algorithm and on different plain text sizes of 512, 1024, 2048, 3072 Bytes. A comparative analysis of these results is performed and suitable crypto ciphers are identified for each of those parameters.