Paper 2017/1039

Dronecrypt - An Efficient Cryptographic Framework for Small Aerial Drones

Muslum Ozgur Ozmen and Attila A. Yavuz

Abstract

Aerial drones are becoming an integral part of application domains including but not limited to, military operations, package delivery, construction, monitoring and search/rescue operations. It is critical to ensure the cyber security of networked aerial drone systems in these applications. Standard cryptographic services can be deployed to provide basic security services; however, they have been shown to be inefficient in terms of energy and time consumption, especially for small aerial drones with resource-limited processors. Therefore, there is a significant need for an efficient cryptographic framework that can meet the requirements of small aerial drones. We propose an improved cryptographic framework for small aerial drones, which offers significant energy efficiency and speed advantages over standard cryptographic techniques. (i) We create (to the best of our knowledge) the first optimized public key infrastructure (PKI) based framework for small aerial drones, which provides energy efficient techniques by harnessing special precomputation methods and optimized elliptic curves. (ii) We also integrate recent light-weight symmetric primitives into our PKI techniques to provide a full-fledged cryptographic framework. (iii) We implemented standard counterparts and our proposed techniques on an actual small aerial drone (Crazyflie 2.0), and provided an in-depth energy analysis. Our experiments showed that our improved cryptographic framework achieves up to 35$\times$ lower energy consumption than its standard counterpart.

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Publication info
Published elsewhere. IEEE Milcom 2018
Keywords
public-key cryptographylightweight cryptographydrone security
Contact author(s)
ozmenmu @ oregonstate edu
History
2018-08-09: revised
2017-10-28: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2017/1039
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/1039,
      author = {Muslum Ozgur Ozmen and Attila A.  Yavuz},
      title = {Dronecrypt - An Efficient Cryptographic Framework for Small Aerial Drones},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2017/1039},
      year = {2017},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1039}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1039}
}
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