Towards Designing Greener Secured Hash Functions

Author

Harish, Priyanka D. ; Roy, Swapnoneel

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Univ. of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA

fYear

2014

Firstpage

618

Lastpage

621

Abstract

In this work we study the energy consumption by MD2, a classical hash function from the algorithmic perspective. Our work is motivated by the frequent use of hashes in various computer security protocols, firewalls, and intrusion detection tools. To motivate our work, we measure power consumption by a common anti-virus software to perform various functions. We use a generic energy complexity model designed by Roy et. Al. To analyze the energy consumed by MD2. We then show how to reduce the energy consumption in MD2 by performing the block processing operations of MD2 in parallel.

Keywords

cryptography; energy consumption; firewalls; green computing; MD2; antivirus software; computer security protocol; energy consumption; firewall; generic energy complexity model; greener secured hash function; intrusion detection tool; power consumption; Algorithm design and analysis; Energy consumption; Parallel processing; Power demand; Protocols; Security; Software; Energy Optimization; Hash; Security Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet of Things (iThings), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, and Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), IEEE and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing(CPSCom), IEEE

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5967-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/iThings.2014.106

Filename

7059732