An AEAD cryptographic framework and TinyAEAD construct for secure WSN communication

A new cryptographic framework called Joint Cypher Mode (JCM) is introduced. JCM provides an authenticated-encryption with associated data (AEAD) cryptographic service in packet-based communication protocols. JCM is utilised to design a resourceful block cipher-based, light-weight construct named TinyAEAD. TinyAEAD is benchmarked in comparison with standardised block cipher-based AEAD schemes, used in contemporary wireless sensor network (WSN) communication protocols. Results of the software simulation benchmark indicate that, TinyAEAD exhibits advantageous performance regarding processing latency, processing throughput and processing efficiency for practical WSN communicated data frame lengths.