International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications

Lightweight secure message transfer protocol based on ECC (Nist P-256) Internet of Things equipped with satellite communications

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Department of Electrical Engineering, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

With the expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) services and the use of satellite communications, according to the regional or continental extent of these services, the need for lightweight encryption has increased. In satellite communications, security cannot be fully implemented given the long transmission distances, rendering heavy encryption algorithms, such as RSA, unreliable. ECC using mathematical solutions and elliptic curve discrete logarithm problems (ECDLP) can be considered a lightweight algorithm in telecommunications. Here, we propose a new strategy for secure IOT data communication between a satellite link and a terrestrial link that uses the principles of ECC elliptic curve cryptography and the NIST P-256 standard for key agreement and encryption for transmitting messages over the satellite communication platform.

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International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications
Volume 16, Issue 4
April 2025
Pages 93-102
  • Receive Date: 27 October 2023
  • Revise Date: 10 December 2023
  • Accept Date: 23 December 2023