Blockchain is among the most promising new technologies due to its unique features,
encompassing security, privacy, data integrity, and immutability. Blockchain applications …

Lightweight crypstographic algorithms are powerful and secure algorithms which are
equipped with leading-edge innovation like RFID or Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) or …

Over the last few years, there has been a great interest in the Internet of Things (IoT). This is
mainly because the IoT interacts directly with people's everyday lives in critical applications …

Efficient error correction and key derivation is a prerequisite to generate secure and reliable
keys from PUFs. The most common methods can be divided into linear schemes and pointer …

As the use of low-power and low-resource embedded devices continues to increase
dramatically with the introduction of new Internet of Things (IoT) devices, security techniques …

Silicon physical unclonable functions (PUFs) produce a sequence of response bits from chip-
unique manufacturing variations. Since the response bits are physically derived, there is …

The design of cryptographic engines for the Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices and other
ultralightweight devices is a crucial challenge. The emergence of such resource-constrained …

Embedded systems are routinely deployed in critical infrastructures nowadays, therefore
their security is increasingly important. This, combined with the pressing requirement of …

System-on-Chips which include FPGAs are important platforms for critical applications since
they provide significant software performance through multi-core CPUs as well as high …

This paper presents hardware realizations of two lightweight hash function families on
FPGA: spongent and LHash. The assessment provided for both cryptographic primitives is in …