Knapsack Encryption with Elliptic Curve Cryptography Based Secured Wireless Network

This research study discusses about the prospective future research areas while presenting the state-of-the-art in wireless network cryptography. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) offers a safe way for interacting nodes to exchange keys. In order to implement ECC, the message is first converted into an affine point on the Elliptic Curve (EC), and then the knapsack method is applied to the ECC-encrypted message across the finite field. This approach presents Knapsack Encryption with ECC Algorithm (KECC) for improving data security in wireless networks. The data is encrypted by using the knapsack algorithm and the ECC algorithm. The necessary encrypted data is forwarded to the receiver via in-between nodes. As a result, it avoids the man-in-the-middle attack. Experimental results prove that the KECC strategy increases the forward ratio. In addition, it reduces the key generation, encryption, as well as decryption computational time.