Energy analysis of public-key cryptography for wireless sensor networks. Wander, A., Gura, N., Eberle, H., Gupta, V., & Shantz, S. In Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2005. PerCom 2005, pages 324–328, March, 2005.
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In this paper, we quantify the energy cost of authentication and key exchange based on public-key cryptography on an 8-bit microcontroller platform. We present a comparison of two public-key algorithms, RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), and consider mutual authentication and key exchange between two untrusted parties such as two nodes in a wireless sensor network. Our measurements on an Atmel ATmega128L low-power microcontroller indicate that public-key cryptography is very viable on 8-bit energy-constrained platforms even if implemented in software. We found ECC to have a significant advantage over RSA as it reduces computation time and also the amount of data transmitted and stored.
@inproceedings{wander_energy_2005,
	title = {Energy analysis of public-key cryptography for wireless sensor networks},
	doi = {10.1109/PERCOM.2005.18},
	abstract = {In this paper, we quantify the energy cost of authentication and key exchange based on public-key cryptography on an 8-bit microcontroller platform. We present a comparison of two public-key algorithms, RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), and consider mutual authentication and key exchange between two untrusted parties such as two nodes in a wireless sensor network. Our measurements on an Atmel ATmega128L low-power microcontroller indicate that public-key cryptography is very viable on 8-bit energy-constrained platforms even if implemented in software. We found ECC to have a significant advantage over RSA as it reduces computation time and also the amount of data transmitted and stored.},
	booktitle = {Third {IEEE} {International} {Conference} on {Pervasive} {Computing} and {Communications}, 2005. {PerCom} 2005},
	author = {Wander, A.S. and Gura, N. and Eberle, H. and Gupta, V. and Shantz, S.C.},
	month = mar,
	year = {2005},
	pages = {324--328}
}

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