IoVCipher: A low-latency lightweight block cipher for internet of vehicles

Abstract

The data security of CAN bus system is receiving increasing attention with the rapid development of Internet of Vehicles (IoV). However, traditional ciphers are not the best choice due to the limitations of computation, real-time, and resources of Electronic Control Units in vehicles. Thus, this paper proposes a lightweight block cipher IoVCipher to protect the security of IoV. It is designed focus on the latency and area in round-based architectures (both encryption and decryption) to meet this resource-constrained environments. For this purpose, two S-boxes with low latency and tiny area are constructed in this paper, one involution and one non-involution. Considering the decryption latency, a low latency subkey generation method is designed. In addition, this paper proposes a new extended MISTY structure that makes the encryption and decryption of hardware implementations similar. In comparison to other low-latency lightweight block ciphers such as PRINCE, QARMA, MANTIS and LLLWBC, IoVCipher achieves an effective balance between latency and area in the round-based architecture, and IoVCipher has low latency, low area, and low energy in the fully unrolled architecture. Finally, IoVCipher is implemented on a real-time speed acquisition and encryption testbed to simulate encrypted transmission of real-time speed in a CAN bus environment.