A review of traditional, lightweight and ultra-lightweight cryptography techniques for IoT security environment

The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) and its use across different types of organizations has led to rapid advancements in the information technology sector. This increasingly integrated digital network system called the Internet of Things will enrich the lives of everyone, boost the competitiveness of businesses, improve public efficiencies and make the list goes further. However, from the perspective of protection and privacy, this modern Internet of Things (IoT) built on the internet incorporates new types of challenges, due to the various communication stacks and standards involved, conventional protection primitives cannot be extended explicitly to IoT technologies. In this work, the traditional, Lightweight and ultra-lightweight cryptography algorithms for securing the IoT environment have been presented. However, this work distinguishes itself from the previous work by it is highlighting the most recent and effective cryptography algorithms that could perform a good task to secure the IoT environment. Finally, this review provides a guideline and possible points for developing improved solution models of the past, recent, and emerging cryptography algorithms.