Performance of Software and Hardware Oriented Lightweight Stream Cipher in Constraint Environment: A Review

The internet has advanced significantly in the modern era, with millions of IOT devices connected to one another and exchanging enormous amounts of data. But several types of attacks, including brute-force attacks and exhaustive key attacks, can always target these data. Lightweight cryptography offers a defense against these types of attacks and safe internet communication. However, not every cipher performs well in every parameter. Some stream ciphers perform well on hardware bases, while others perform well on software bases. We will talk about the performance of the stream cipher on both software and hardware bases in this study.