Pervasive computing constitutes a growing trend, aiming to embed smart devices into
everyday objects. The limited resources of these devices and the ever‐present need for …

With the fast evolution of digital data exchange, security information becomes much
important in data storage and transmission. Due to the increasing use of images in industrial …

This paper describes a high performance, low power, and highly flexible cryptographic
processor, Cryptoraptor, which is designed to support both today's and tomorrow's …

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) translate unavoidable variations in certain
parameters of materials, waves, or devices into random and unique signals. They have …

Abstract Five leading Phase 2 Profile 2 eSTREAM candidates have been implemented in
hardware, targeting two main semiconductor technologies, Field Programmable Gate Arrays …

Compared with block ciphers, stream ciphers are more efficient when implemented in
hardware environment, like Field Programma-ble Gate Array (FPGA). In this paper, we …

This paper presents an effective field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based hardware
implementation of a parallel key searching system for the brute-force attack on RC4 …

Cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS), an emerging computing paradigm, have attracted
intensive attentions from the research community and industry. We are facing various …

The design of efficient and secure cryptographic algorithms is a fundamental problem of
cryptography. Due to the tight cost and constrained resources devices such as Radio …

Two modified RC4 variants have been discussed in this paper. First, the weaknesses in the
basic RC4 algorithm have been identified and further, the weaknesses have been removed …