A new lightweight hybrid cryptographic algorithm for the internet of things

The internet world is continuous revolutions from the World Wide Web and the mobile Internet to the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is the new world for connecting the object space in the real world with the virtual space in the computer world. Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) and Wireless Sensors (WS) are technologies that can be used to create the IoT world. This increases the needs of these technologies in our daily life. However, there is a main drawback within these technologies which is to provide the low computation devices. Such a drawback limits the capabilities of RFID and WS. These technologies can hold a very sensitive data that may be related to the physical world such as the names or places of people. Thus, exposing this data can lead to security breach issues and researchers tried to come up with different security solutions with low computation. However, adding security to such low computation devices is a great challenge as they need a suitable lightweight cipher that is able to fit their properties. This paper addresses some of the available lightweight ciphers, compares between them and comes up with a new algorithm that can fit low computation devices.