Accurate Measurement of the Energy Consumption of Security Functions

Benoít Fournier, Valérie Tong, Gilles Guette

2021

Abstract

In recent years, the number of IoT devices has grown exponentially. These devices need to communicate with each other or with the infrastructure and their communications need to be protected. To do this, devices implement security protocols that ultimately rely on the execution of encryption, decryption and hash functions. When these devices run on battery, more broadly, in an energy-saving approach, it is important to evaluate the energy consumption associated with the implementation of these security measures. In the long run, we believe that it will be necessary to choose a balance between the implementation of very strong security measures but very expensive in terms of energy consumption and other implementations, perhaps less safe but less expensive. The first step in this direction is to know how to accurately measure the energy consumption of existing and widely deployed security libraries. In this article, we describe a methodology and architecture to evaluate the power consumption of any functions running on a Raspberry Pi. This article provides a benchmark of some of the cryptographic functions of OpenSSL, allowing developers to know what the cost of using a particular function is, and also to compare the energy cost of security functions with similar functionality.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fournier B., Tong V. and Guette G. (2021). Accurate Measurement of the Energy Consumption of Security Functions. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, ISBN 978-989-758-524-1, pages 487-494. DOI: 10.5220/0010544604870494

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt21,
author={Benoít Fournier and Valérie Tong and Gilles Guette},
title={Accurate Measurement of the Energy Consumption of Security Functions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT,},
year={2021},
pages={487-494},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010544604870494},
isbn={978-989-758-524-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT,
TI - Accurate Measurement of the Energy Consumption of Security Functions
SN - 978-989-758-524-1
AU - Fournier B.
AU - Tong V.
AU - Guette G.
PY - 2021
SP - 487
EP - 494
DO - 10.5220/0010544604870494