Publication detail

A Comprehensive and Reproducible Comparison of Cryptographic Primitives Execution on Android Devices

OMETOV, A. ZEMAN, K. MAŠEK, P. BALAŽEVIČ, L. KOMAROV, M.

Original Title

A Comprehensive and Reproducible Comparison of Cryptographic Primitives Execution on Android Devices

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

With technology evolving rapidly and proliferating, it is imperative to pay attention to mobile devices' security being currently responsible for various sensitive data processing. This phase is essential as an intermediate before the cloud or distributed ledger storage delivery and should be considered additional care due to its inevitability. This paper analyzes the security mechanisms applied for internal use in the Android OS and the communication between the Android OS and the remote server. Presented work aims to examine these mechanisms and evaluate which cryptographic methods and procedures are most advantageous in terms of energy efficiency derived from execution time. Nonetheless, the dataset with the measurements collected from 17 mobile devices and the code for reproducibility is also provided. After analyzing the collected data, specific cryptographic algorithms are recommended to implement an application that utilizes native cryptographic operations on modern Android devices. In particular, selected algorithms for symmetric encryption are AES256 / GCM / No Padding; for digital signature -- SHA512 with RSA2048 / PSS, and for asymmetric encryption - RSA3072 / OAEP with SHA512 and MGF1 Padding.

Keywords

Cryptographic protocols; Software measurement; Information security; Cellular phones; Wearable computers

Authors

OMETOV, A.; ZEMAN, K.; MAŠEK, P.; BALAŽEVIČ, L.; KOMAROV, M.

Released

1. 4. 2021

Publisher

IEEE

ISBN

2169-3536

Periodical

IEEE Access

Year of study

9

Number

1

State

United States of America

Pages from

54625

Pages to

54638

Pages count

14

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9389752

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/202270

BibTex

@article{BUT171029,
  author="Aleksandr {Ometov} and Kryštof {Zeman} and Pavel {Mašek} and Lukáš {Balaževič} and Mikhail {Komarov}",
  title="A Comprehensive and Reproducible Comparison of Cryptographic Primitives Execution on Android Devices",
  journal="IEEE Access",
  year="2021",
  volume="9",
  number="1",
  pages="54625--54638",
  doi="10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3069627",
  issn="2169-3536",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9389752"
}