Enhancing IoT security with a DNA-based lightweight cryptography system
The rapid increase of internet of things (IoT) devices in our daily lives has highlighted the critical need for strong security measures to protect the integrity and confidentiality of IoT communications. This paper presents a novel solution to this growing problem using a secure and lightweight D...
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Nature Portfolio
2025
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/48139/1/s41598-025-96292-0.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/48139/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-96292-0 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-96292-0 |
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| Summary: | The rapid increase of internet of things (IoT) devices in our daily lives has highlighted the critical need
for strong security measures to protect the integrity and confidentiality of IoT communications.
This paper presents a novel solution to this growing problem using a secure and lightweight DNAbased encryption method, elliptic curve encryption (ECC), to secure IoT communications. The research explains how DNA-LWCS (DNA-based lightweight cryptography system) utilizes basic
encryption methods to secure data transmission against system complexity while maintaining security effectiveness. The security key ensures enough protection for achieving the necessary level of confidentiality. Three fundamental keys are extracted from publicly accessible DNA sequences to start
the procedure during its first phase. When employed together with ECC these keys generate a private
key during the second stage of development. During the second stage the keys generate a private
key based on ECC (elliptic curve cryptography) protocol. The encryption and decryption of IoT device
messages requires this private key during the last operational phase. The combination of intuitive DNA
sequences together with ECC generates better security and decreases the strain on systems. Practical
evaluations demonstrate that the proposed encryption method offers better security and efficiency
compared to existing methods while maintaining weightless operational performance. This makes it an
ideal solution to secure IoT data exchange. The encryption method we investigated received detailed
study which focused on both security and efficiency criteria during our research timeframe. The
research demonstrates our security method outperforms other solutions by maintaining low resource
requirements. Our proposed DNA-based encryption system shows potential as a suitable security
measure for protecting IoT connections through its lightweight design capabilities. |
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