Lightweight ARX-Based Secure Communication Protocol
Custom encryption protocol for resource-constrained systems
RoleDesigner & sole engineer
PeriodOngoing
StackC, Python, Cryptography
Categorysecurity, systems
Standard cryptographic approaches carry more computational overhead than constrained embedded systems can afford.
- Designed a lightweight encryption protocol using ARX (Addition, Rotation, XOR) operations
- Implemented secure message encoding and decoding via key-based transformations
Plaintext
ARX transform (add/rotate/XOR)
Key-based encoding
Secure message
Computational overheadReduced vs. traditional crypto