Securing the Perceptual Layer of the Internet of Things (Iot) Devices Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Abstract

Abstract The security of IOT layers has become very important considering the various attacks faced by IOT devices especially, the perceptual layer. Reported attacks in recent times include direct Denial of Service (DDoS), Botnet attack and Falsification attacks. Several security techniques in place can not be directly implemented on IOT devices; hence, there is a need to improve the research.This work has proposed an ECC based on binary field solution, there were three stages of implementation which includes device registration where each devices are recognised and locked against all forms of communication, device authentication for key agreement and unlocking, communication phase for exchange of information. It was implemented on a contactless ATM card and a mobile phone as an IOT devices used for electronic payment. The evaluation result for storage capacity showed that the mobile phone and the ATM card has the capacity to run ECC security protocol directly, the Jitter result obtained reveals that the Jitter value did not deviate from normal for both devices while, the computational time showed that it is computationally efficient to use ECC over binary field for the security of the perceptual layer.