A Survey to Lightweight Cryptography World

Lightweight cryptography is introduced by researchers to be implemented in resource-constrained devices that has minimal computation ability and low battery capacity. This is because conventional cryptographic algorithms such as AES, RSA and DES are overkilling these resource-constrained devices as their hardware is not able to support the computation. This paper will talk about the cryptography's concept, the primitives of lightweight cryptography and different types of lightweight cryptography. On top of that, this paper will also discuss the attacks used by adversaries to crack the encrypted information and the evaluation criteria used to assess the performance of a lightweight cryptography.