Improved authenticated elliptic curve cryptography scheme for resource starve applications

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Improved authenticated elliptic curve cryptography scheme for
resource starve applications
Esau Taiwo Oladipupo1
, Oluwakemi Christiana Abikoye2
1
Department of Computer Science, The Federal Polytechnic Bida, Bida, Niger State, Nigeria
2
Department of Computer Science, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received May 19, 2022
Revised Oct 28, 2022
Accepted Nov 9, 2022
Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) remains the best approach to asymmetric
cryptography when it comes to securing communication among
communication partners in low-computing devices such as wireless sensor
networks (WSN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) due to its effectiveness in
generating small keys with a strong encryption mechanism. The ECC cuts
down on power use and improves device performance, so it can be used in a
wide range of devices that don't have a lot of resources. However, most of
the existing ECC implementations suffer from implementation flaws that
make them vulnerable to cryptanalysis attacks. In this study, flaws in the
existing implementation of ECC are identified. A new scheme where the
identified flaws are remedied was developed. The results of the security
analysis show that the new scheme is an indistinguishable authenticated
adaptive chosen ciphertext attack (IND-CCA3), resistant to malleability and
man-in-the-middle attacks (MIMA). The results of comparative security
analysis show that the mapping scheme employed in the new scheme maps
any blocks of plaintext to distinct points on an elliptic curve, which makes it
resistant to all attacks that the existing schemes are vulnerable to without
having a negative effect on its encryption and decryption time, throughput,
or power consumption.
Keywords:
Authenticated encryption
Bit modification
Cipher block chaining mode
Columnar transposition
Elliptic curve cryptosystem
Verification
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Esau Taiwo Oladipupo
Department of Computer Science, The Federal Polytechnic Bida
Nigeria
Email: taiwotheophilus@gmail.com, oladipupo.esau@fedpolybida.edu.ng
1. INTRODUCTION
Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) has been described as the most important tool in modern
cryptography [1]. This applauding statement was due to the fact that the world is increasingly moving
towards the use of resource-constrained applications where computational speed, storage, and bandwidth are
limited [2]. With ECC, public key encryption, digital signatures, non-interactive key exchange, and a host of
other security features are possible. ECC offers these security features with high speed, small space
consumption, and bandwidth savings. These outstanding characteristics make ECC suitable for security
applications in IoT devices [3]. These characteristics also explain why ECC is becoming more popular for
security purposes [4] than its counterpart public key cryptography algorithms such as Rivest, Shamir
Addleman (RSA), Diffie Helman (DH), and digital signature algorithm (DSA), particularly on resource-
constrained devices such as wireless sensor networks (WSN), radio frequency identification (RFID), and the
Internet of Things (IoT) [5]. ECC can use elliptic curves to implement cryptography algorithms based on
discrete logarithm problems and ElGamal algorithms in an efficient way [6], [7].

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Elliptic curve random generator has been defined by National Institute of Standard and Technology
(NIST) as a method of grouping random digits based on curves [8]. Unlike other cryptosystems that encrypt
and decrypt messages directly, be it text or image, elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC) is capable of encrypting
and decrypting only points on the elliptic curves [7]. Since ECC can only encrypt/decrypt point on an elliptic
curve, cryptographers who use ECC must find a way of converting the message to be encrypted or decrypted
to points on an elliptic curve. This process of converting message to point on an elliptic curve is known as
mapping. Moreover, to retrieve the actual message when a point on the elliptic curve is decrypted, it requires
that the point be converted back to messages. The process of converting points on an elliptic curve to
message is called reverse mapping [6].
The major problem of the existing implementation of ECC such as [7], [9]–[11], is that, many of
them failed to adhere to the guidelines given by [6] for a good message mapping and reverse mapping [12].
Also noticed that most of the existing systems such as [13]–[15], and [16] that claimed to have used ECC for
securing plaintext failed to give the detail of how the plaintext were encoded into numerical values for use in
ECC’s mapping phase. In addition, the authenticated ECC encryption scheme proposed by [12] has security
flaws which make the scheme vulnerable to cryptanalysis attacks. In this paper, security flaws in [12] are
identified. A new scheme which removes the flaws is proposed. Security, comparative security, and
comparative performance analysis of the proposed scheme are carried out on the proposed system.
The rest of this paper is organized: section 2 gives the overview of ECC. In section 3, review of the
related works is dealt with. The methodology where the details of how identified problem was solved is given
in section 4. Results and discussions on the results are given in section 5 while conclusion and
recommendation are given in section 6.
2. OVERVIEW OF ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC)
The idea of using elliptic curve in cryptography was first introduced by [17] in 1987. Nowadays,
ECC is widely applied for securing data on devices in resource constrained environment such as IoT and
WSN devices [12]. This suitability of ECC in resource starve devices stems from the fact that ECC provides
equal security for lesser key bit size than RSA [18] as shown by the comparison of the key sizes in Table 1.
As a result, ECC supports low computation device capabilities, enabling them to perform more effectively
[4].
Table 1. Comparison of ECC and RSA key sizes [3]
Key Size of ECC (Bits) Key size of RSA (Bits) Ratio (Bits)
106 512 1: 4
132 768 1:5
160 1024 1:6
224 2048 1:9
256 3072 1:12
384 7680 1:20
512 16380 1:30
ECC is based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields and the difficulty in
solving the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP). ECDLP deals with the problem of calculating
the number of steps or hops it takes to move from one point to another point on the elliptic curve [19]. In
mathematics, elliptic curves are described by (1)
𝐴 𝑥3
+ 𝐵 𝑥2
𝑦 + 𝐶 𝑥 𝑦2
+ 𝐷 𝑦3
+ 𝐸 𝑥2
+ 𝐹 𝑥 𝑦 + 𝐺 𝑦2
+ 𝐻 𝑥 + 𝐼 𝑦 + 𝐽 = 0, (1)
While the type of elliptic curve that is being used in cryptography is a simplified form (Weierstras form),
which is defined by (2):
𝑦2
= 𝑥3
+ 𝑎𝑥 + 𝑏 (2)
The type of elliptic curves used by ECC are those elliptic curves in which the variables and
coefficients are restricted to elements of a finite field. The two families of elliptic curves defined for use in
cryptography are: prime curves defined over odd prime field 𝑭𝒑 (where the field size p >3) and binary curves
defined over Galois field GF(2m) (where the field size p = 2m) [7]. The operations on elliptical curves in
cryptography are point addition, point multiplication and point doubling [20]–[22]. The pictorial

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representation of point addition where two distinct points P and Q are added together is shown in Figure 1(a).
Figure 1(b) shows the pictorial representation of point doubling. Point doubling occurs when two points P
and Q where P= Q are to be added together. The addition of two points P and Q where P= Q= 0 isi infinity as
depicted in Figure 1(c). The addition of two mirror point ie P= -Q is infinity as shown in Figure 1(d).
Equation (3) holds for all instances of (a) – (d) in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Pictorial representation of operations in ECC [23]; (a) Point addition; (b) Point doubling;
(c) Point at inﬁnity when y coordinates are both 0; and (d) Point at inﬁnity when the coordinates are mirror
image of each other
𝑅 = 𝑃 + 𝑄 = {
∞, 𝑖𝑓𝑥1 = 𝑥2 𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦1 = −𝑦2 𝑂𝑅 𝑥1 = 𝑥2 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦1 = 𝑦2 = 0
𝑃, 𝑖𝑓 𝑄 = ∞
𝑄, 𝑖𝑓 𝑃 = ∞
(𝑥3, 𝑦3), 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒
(3)
where
𝑥3 = {
𝜆2
− 𝑥1 − 𝑥2, 𝑖𝑓 𝑃 ≠ ±𝑄
𝜆2
− 2𝑥1, 𝑖𝑓 𝑃 = 𝑄
𝑦3 = 𝜆(𝑥1 − 𝑥3) − 𝑦1
and
𝜆 =
{
𝑦2 − 𝑦1
𝑥2 − 𝑥1
, 𝑖𝑓 𝑃 ≠ ±𝑄
3𝑥1
2
+ 𝑎
2𝑦1
, 𝑖𝑓 𝑃 = 𝑄
2.1. Scalar multiplication
Let P be a random point on the elliptic curve. The operation of multiplication over P is done by the
repetitive addition. To achieve encryption and decryption using ECC, k|P| plays a vital role as in
exponentiation operation. k[P]= P + P + P +···+P times i.e, 5P = P+P+P+P+P (additions). Point doubling can
be used to reduce the number of additions.
P+P=2P(Doubling)
2P+2P=4P(Doubling)
4P+P=5P(addition)
2.2. Domain parameters for elliptic curves cryptosystem and their derivations
To use ECC, all parties involved have to agree on all basic elements concerning the elliptic curve E
being used. In general the domain parameters for ECC algorithm is a sextuple given by (p,a,b,G,n,h) where
− p is prime that specifies the size of the finite field.
− a and b are the coefficients of the elliptic curve (2) - 𝒚𝟐
= 𝒙𝟑
+ 𝒂𝒙 + 𝒃.
− G is the base point that generates the subgroup of the elliptic curve whose order is a large prime.
− n is the order (number of points) of the subgroup. The order n of G is the smallest integer n such that nG
= 0, n is a large prime.
− h is the cofactor of the subgroup which is the ratio
|𝑬|
|𝑬𝒑|
=
𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝑬
𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝑬𝒑
.
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When two communicating parties are to communicate, each of them must have private and public keys. Each
retain their private key while the public is made available to the public. Private key is generated by randomly
selecting an integer from [1..n-1]. Public key is obtained by multiplying the generated private key Ka and
point G with coordinates (x,y) on the elliptic curve together. The two communicating parties can therefore
generate a shared secret key (SSK). For example, if Ks is the private key of the sender and Kr is the private
key of the recipient. The public key of the sender will be spub = Ks *G and the public key of the recipient
will be rpub = Kr *G. The sender and recipient can generate SSK as: sender: SSK = Ks * (Kr*G) and
recipient: SSK = Kr * (Ks *G).
3. REVIEW OF RELATED WORKS
A lot of research works which exploited the strength of ECC to achieve various tasks of asymmetric
cryptography like authentication, digital signature, key agreement and encryption had been carried out by
various researchers in the past but gap has been found in the literature. An encryption scheme similar to
Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol but faster by around 20 percent was proposed by [24]. A text-based
cryptography where ECC was used for transforming the message into ASCII values before mapping the
transformed message to affine point on elliptic curve through point addition of the ASCII value times the
Generator was proposed by [25]. The method adopted by some authors such as [26]–[28] where ASCII table
was used to obtain the decimal value of each character of the message and then mapped each of the obtained
decimal value directly onto point on elliptic curve are not only vulnerable to chosen plaintext attack (CPA)
but also waste bandwidth during transmission of the message from sender to receiver. Other schemes that
introduced manipulation of the ASCII table by multiplying it by a secure number that is agreed on by both
parties [11] are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack (MIMA) because the issue of sharing the secure
number is similar to the challenge of agreeing on the sharing of a secure key between the two parties. Again,
the approach wastes bandwidth during transmission of the message from sender to receiver because each
character is represented by a point on the elliptic curve.
In [6], it is presented a message mapping and reverse mapping scheme that is based on grouping a
fixed number of characters of the message before mapping. The ASCII value of each character in each group
is converted to a binary value of 8 bits. These binary forms of each character in the group are concatenated
together, and an integer value of the concatenated binary string is obtained and mapped to a point on the
elliptic curve. In order to prevent non-mapping results, the authors proposed padding each set of characters to
8 bits to add one bit each time the mapping failed to find a corresponding y value. Although this method
saves bandwidth, the approach is vulnerable to CPA when the set of characters is equal. The author also
employed the use of El-Gama for encryption of the mapped point, which requires that for each mapped point,
two points on the EC form encrypted points. This encryption scheme is not efficient enough, as the
transmission of two encrypted points per block requires more bandwidth.
In an image encryption scheme using ECC proposed by [23], the encryption computation was
reduced to pixel grouping into a single integer, where the number of pixels in each group is based on the
ECC key size; and mapping of the grouped pixel to one large integer, which is then mapped to the elliptic
curve. The performance of this scheme depends on the number of pixels that exist in one group.
Significantly, a large number of pixels in one group decreases the computation overhead and, in this way,
increases the performance. However, the number of pixels in one group depends on the key size, where large
keys increase the pixel count. While this may be true, incrementing the key size leads to an increase in the
encryption and decryption computation and storage overhead. As a result, the performance is affected in both
cases.
In [7] the use of block chaining operation was introduced into a mapping scheme in ECC. In this
approach, the plaintexts to be mapped are divided into fixed blocks. Exclusive OR (XOR) operation is carried
out between the first block and an initialization vector IV, the result of the first XORed value is used in the
second XOR operation, and the process continues until all blocks are treated. Although the approach maps
the message to distinct points on an elliptic curve, but it is vulnerable to CPA and CCA when the plaintext is
divided into a set of blocks and all blocks are the same (e.g., the plain text is a repeated character i.e. blocks
B1, B2, …, Bn, where B1= B2=…=Bn). The first XOR operation produces B1’ = InV ⊕ B1, the second
XOR operation results in the value of the InV as InV ⊕ B1’ ⊕ B2 = InV ⊕ B1⊕ B2 = InV ⊕ B1⊕ B1=
InV. Therefore, the result of the XOR operation produces the sequence B’1 , InV, B’1, InV, .... Moreover, the
author is silent about how the initialization vector is to be securely shared among the communicating parties.
The need to securely share Inv among the communicating parties makes the scheme vulnerable to MIMA.
The authenticated encryption (AE) scheme proposed by [12] was proved to be secure against several
encryption attacks, such as CPA, CCA, and malleability attacks. A proof of the resistance of the proposed
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analysis and performance evaluation show that the proposed scheme outperforms the security of other
schemes and maintains the same computational overhead. However, taking a critical look at the mapping
scheme shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Existing technique of resisting encryption attacks using cipher block chaining (CBC) [12]
As presented by the author, the scheme failed to take into consideration a situation where an attacker
tests the scheme with the plaintext that is divided into a set of blocks and all blocks are the same (e.g., the
plain text is a repeated character). For instance, the vulnerability of the scheme stems from special cases
when the plaintext blocks are equal such that 𝐵1 = 𝐵2 = 𝐵3 = ⋯ = 𝐵𝑛. It often happens that the value send
to the maping function is not altered. This means that the returned value from mapping is still the same value
that was sent to the mapping function. This returned mapped value is then XORed with the next block
𝐵2which happen to be the same value as 𝐵1 in such a case the following happen:
𝐵′
1 = 𝐼𝑛𝑉 ⊕ 𝐵1 ⟶ 𝑚𝑎𝑝(𝐵′
1) ⟶ 𝐵𝑚
1
𝐵′
2 = 𝐵𝑚
1 ⊕ 𝐵2 ⟶ 𝑚𝑎𝑝(𝐵′
2) ⟶ 𝐵𝑚
2
𝐵′
3 = 𝐵𝑚
2 ⊕ 𝐵3 ⟶ 𝑚𝑎𝑝(𝐵′
3) ⟶ 𝐵𝑚
3
𝐵′
4 = 𝐵𝑚
3 ⊕ 𝐵4 ⟶ 𝑚𝑎𝑝(𝐵′
4) ⟶ 𝐵𝑚
4
𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐵′
1 = 𝐵𝑚
1
𝐵′
1 = 𝐼𝑛𝑉 ⊕ 𝐵1 = 𝐵𝑚
1
𝐵′
2 = 𝐼𝑛𝑉 ⊕ 𝐵1 ⊕ 𝐵2 = 𝐵𝑚
2, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐵1 = 𝐵2
𝐵′
2 = 𝐼𝑛𝑉 ⊕ 𝐵1 ⊕ 𝐵1 = 𝐵𝑚
2,
∴ 𝐵′
2 = 𝐼𝑛𝑉 = 𝐵𝑚
2
𝐵′
3 = 𝐵𝑚
2 ⊕ 𝐵3 = 𝐵𝑚
3, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐵1 = 𝐵2 = 𝐵3 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼𝑛𝑉 = 𝐵𝑚
2
∴ 𝐵′
3 = 𝐼𝑛𝑉 ⊕ 𝐵1 = 𝐵𝑚
3
∴ 𝐵′
3 = 𝐵′
1 = 𝐵𝑚
3 = 𝐵𝑚
1
𝐵′
4 = 𝐵′
1 ⊕ 𝐵4 = 𝐵𝑚
4
𝐵′
4 = 𝐼𝑛𝑉 ⊕ 𝐵1 ⊕ 𝐵1 = 𝐵𝑚
4
𝐵′
4 = 𝐼𝑛𝑉 = 𝐵𝑚
2 = 𝐵𝑚
4
This sequence continues as 𝐵′
1 = 𝐵′
3 = 𝐵′
5 = 𝐵′
7 = ⋯ and 𝐵′
2 = 𝐵′
4 = 𝐵′
6 = 𝐵′
8 = ⋯ so also 𝐵𝑚
1 =
𝐵𝑚
3 = 𝐵𝑚
5 = 𝐵𝑚
7 = ⋯ and 𝐵𝑚
2 = 𝐵𝑚
4 = 𝐵𝑚
6 = 𝐵𝑚
8=…
Hence, under this condition, the scheme is vulnerable to CPA and chosen ciphertext attack (CCA).
Again, CBC applied in the scheme uses an initialization vector that must be generated at random. This
initialization vector must be harmonized between the transmitting and receiving correspondent for correct
decryption. There must be a secure way of doing this if the security of the data is not going to be broken. This
makes the technique to also vulnerable to MIMA.
4. METHOD
Obviously, from the reviewed literature, it can be established that existing implementation of ECC
are suffering from different cryptanalysis attacks. The enhancement done by [12] suffers from CPA and CCA
because of the condition analyzed in the literature review. There are two identified deficiencies; i) the
vulnerability to MIMA, and ii) the vulnerability to CPA and CCA.
The first problem is solved by making use of the SSK for the production of the seed that can be used
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without having to transmit anything using any channel, the problem of MIMA is solved. The second problem
is solved by XORing InV with B1, map the result to point on elliptic curve and encrypt the mapped point to
obtain 𝑩𝒆
𝟏. To encrypt B2, the x coordinate of the encrypted point 𝑩𝒆
𝟏 is XORed with B2, the result is
mapped to point on elliptic curve and the mapped point is encrypted to obtain 𝑩𝒆
𝟐. This process is repeated
until all the blocks are mapped and encrypted. This process works because the encrypted B1 disorganizes the
pattern that make XOR vulnerable to the above analysis such that when it is XORed with B2 an entirely new
value is generated and no XOR function can be used to trace it back to InV. Figure 3 illustrates how these
feet are achieved in the improved authenticated elliptic curve cryptosystem (IAECC) scheme. By this
process, the vulnerability to cryptanalysis attack is greatly reduced as cryptanalysts have to solve ECDLP
before any attack can be lunched.
Figure 3. Securing blocks against encryption attacks using CBC in IAECC
The encryption algorithms for the IAECC is given in Algorithm 1. The encryption process requires
the plaintext, the elliptic curve name, the sender’s private key and the recipient public key.
Algorithm 1: IECC Encryption Process
Module encryption (plaintext,curvename,rpublickey,sprivatekey)
Input: Plaintext: the text to be encrypted, rpublickey: publickey key of the recipient
Sprivatekey: private key of the sender, N: number of bits to be reserved for
mapping block to
Points, curvename: standard elliptic curve name sent from recipient
Output: Cm: array of Encrypted points on the elliptic curve
1. START
2. curve = Obtain elliptic curve using curvename
3. nbits = obtain curve order and convert it to binary form
4. COMPUTE blocksize = 𝑭𝑳𝑶𝑶𝑹 (
𝒏𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒔−𝟖
𝟖
)
5. COMPUTE nblocks =
𝑳𝑬𝑵𝑮𝑻𝑯(𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕)
𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒔𝒊𝒛𝒆
6. COMPUTE ssk = sprivatekey * rpublickey
7. COMPUTE diff = ABS (ssk.x - ssk.y)
8. COMPUTE encseed = MOD (diff, 232)
9. COMPUTE Inv = RANDOM (encseed, blocksize)
10. LET j = 1
11. INITIALIZE Array cm
12. FOR i = 1 TO nblocks (taken blocksize characters at a time)
i. LET block = plaintext (j to j + blocksize -1)
ii. LET j = j + blocksize
iii. block = CONVERT block to binary form
iv. Inv = CONVERT Inv to binary form
v. block = XOR (block, Inv)
vi. LET X = CONVERT block to integer
vii. LET d = X * 16
viii. LET Pm = CALL blockmapping(d, curvename)
ix. LET C2 = Pm + ssk //C2 is a point (x,y) on the elliptic curve
x. Cm[i] = C2
xi. Inv = CONVERT C2.x to binary form
xii. Inv = Inv [1..blocksize]
END FOR
13. signedCm = CALL Appendsignature (Cm)
STOP

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Algorithm 1 makes use of mapping function whose algorithm is described in Algorithm 2. This mapping
function modifies the numerical value X of the block of plaintext to ensure that the point (X,Y) satisfies the
equation 𝒀𝟐
= (X3
+ aX + b)MOD P. When all the blocks that were mapped unto points on the elliptic curve
are encrypted the encrypted points are signed by the sender using the module Appendsignature whose
description is given in Algorithm 5. Both the signature and the signed encrypted points are transmitted to the
recipient.
Algorithm 2: Algorithm for mapping a block of characters to a point on the Elliptic curve
Module mapoint = blockmapping (X, curvename)
INPUT: X an integer representing a block of ASCII characters.
OUTPUT: A point (x,y) on the Elliptic curve curve(a,b) corresponding to the Message block
1. START
2. SET solution = FALSE
a. WHILE solution = FALSE
i. FIND Y from the equation Y2
= (X3
+ aX + b)MOD P
ii. IF Y does not have solution THEN X = X + 1
ELSE solution = TRUE
ENDIF
ENDWHILE
3. RETURN point with coordinate (X,Y)
STOP
4.1. IAECC decryption process
The decryption process is just the exact reverse of the encryption process. The first operation to be
performed is the verification of the signature by the recipient. The description of the signature verification
algorithm is given in Algorithm 3. If the signature is verified to be valid, then the decryption process will be
carried out otherwise invalid error message will be displayed and the program come to a halt. Figure 4
illustrates how decoding and conversion of the decrypted points into a plain text is achieved and Algorithm 4
gives the description of the decryption process in the proposed IAECC.
Figure 4. Reverse mapping scheme in proposed IAECC
Algorithm 4: Decryption process in proposed IECC
Module Message = Decryption(cm,curvename,spub, rpriv)
Input: cm: List of encrypted points, curvename: name of the curve used, spub: Sender’s
public key,
rpriv: recipient’s private key, signature: Sender’s signature of the encrypted
message
Output: Plaintext: decrypted text obtained from Cm
1. START
2. GET Cm and signature
3. Msent = CONCATENATE(Cm, Signature,spub)
4. Cmvalidity = CALL Verifysignature(Msent,signature, PA))
5. IF Cmvalidity = TRUE THEN
i. GET order N of the curve using the curvename
ii. GET rpriv
iii. COMPUTE blocksize = 𝑭𝑳𝑶𝑶𝑹 (
𝒏𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒔−𝑵
𝑵
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iv. COMPUTE nblocks = LENGTH (cm)
v. COMPUTE ssk = spub * rpriv //shared secrete
vi. COMPUTE diff = ABS(ssk.x - ssk.y)
vii. COMPUTE encseed = MOD(diff, 232)
viii. COMPUTE Inv = RANDOM(encseed, blocksize)
ix. Message = EMPTY STRING
x. FOR i = 1 to nblocks
i. C = Cm[i]
ii. LET ivs = C.x
iii. Pm = C - ssk
iv. x = Pm.x//16
v. block = XOR(x, Inv)
vi. Message = CONCATENATE(Message, block)
vii. Inv = ivs
END FOR
ELSE
DISPLAY (“Error message”)
6. STOP
4.2. Authentication of IAECC encryption and decryption processes
If the message being transmitted between communicating parties will not compromise its
confidentiality, security and integrity, authentication encryption scheme must be applied. In authentication
encryption scheme, confidentiality is maintained by the encryption and decryption phases of the scheme. In
order to maintain the integrity of the message being transmitted in authentication encryption scheme, the
sender must sign the message using his/her private key and the recipient should verify the received message
using the public key of the sender before decryption.
4.2.1. IAECC signing process
In the developed IAECC, the sender signs the message Msent using his/her private key ds, which
relies on elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA), before sending it to the recipient through public
channel. Msent consists of a set of tuples, which contains points on the elliptic curve used in the
cryptosystem. Each point Ci represents the encryption point for each block of the message being transmitted.
The signing process is illustrated in Figure 5 and Algorithm 5 gives the description of the algorithm for
signing process.
Figure 5. Ensuring the Integrity of message by sender’s signature
Algorithm 5: Process of Signing the message
Module appendsignature(Msent)
Input: The Message Msent
Output: Signature pairs (c,d)
1. calculate e = HASH(Msent);
2. calculate z = le f t most p bits o f e
3. select random value k
4. calculate (x, y) = k × G
5. calculate c = x mod p where r ≠ 0
6. If c = 0 go to 3
7. calculate d = (z + ds ∗ r) k −1
8. If d = 0 go to 3
9. (c,d) ← ciphertext signature
10. Stop.

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4.2.2. IECC verification process
The receiver of a signed message verifies it using the sender’s public key. The verification process
is illustrated in Figure 6. Algorithm 6 outlines the steps involved in verifying the integrity of the received
message using the sender’s public key.
Figure 6. Recipient verifies the received message
Algorithm 6: Recipient Verification of a Signed message
Module Verifysignature(Msent,signature, senderpublickey)
Input: Msent, signature (c,d), senderpublickey
Output: Verified ciphertexts
1. Start
2. check (c,d) are integers ∈ 1, 2, 3, ..., p − 1)
3. calculate e = HASH(Msent)
4. calculate z = leftmost p bits of e
5. calculate u1 = ed−1 mod p
6. calculate u2 = rd−1 mod p
7. calculate (x, y) = u1 ∗ G + u2 ∗ senderpublickey
8. Verified ← c ≡ x mod p
Stop.
5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
The results of the security analysis, comparative security analysis and comparative performance
analysis of IAECC with the existing ECC implementations are discussed in this section. The results of the
security analysis of IAECC are based on indistinguishability, malleability and replay attacks. Comparative
security analysis with the existing ECC scheme is based on mapping scheme used by each scheme and
resistance of each scheme to different security attacks. Encryption/decryptime, throughputs and energy
consusmption are used as metrics for comparative performance analysis of IAECC with the existing ECC.
5.1. Security and performance analysis of IAECC
5.1.1. Security analysis based on indistinguishability
Security in terms of indistinguishability is normally presented as a game, where the cryptosystem is
considered secure if no adversary can win the game with significantly greater probability than an adversary
who must guess randomly. A cryptosystem is considered” secure in terms of in distinguishability” if no
adversary A, given an encrypted form of a message randomly chosen from a two-element message space
determined by the adversary, can identify the message choice with probability significantly better than that of
random guessing (1/2). If any adversary can succeed in distinguishing the chosen ciphertext with a
probability significantly greater than 1/2, then this adversary is considered to have an advantage in
distinguishing the ciphertext, and the scheme is not considered secure in terms of in distinguishability.
Various form of indistinguishability against different forms of attacks are denoted [29]: Indistinguishable
under chosen plaintext attack (IND-CPA), Indistinguishable under chosen ciphertext attack (IND-CCA),
Indistinguishable under non-adaptive chosen ciphertext attack (IND-CCA1), Indistinguishable under adaptive
chosen ciphertext attack (IND-CCA2), and Indistinguishable authenticated adaptive chosen ciphertext attack
(IND-CCA3) [30]. While IND=CPA can only provide guarantee against passive security attacks, IND-CCAs
are capable of providing security guarantee against active security attacks [31]. Any cryptography scheme
that is evaluated against IND-CCA3 means that it is also verified against IND-CCA2, IND-CCA1, and IND-
CPA [4]. Therefore, IAECC is verified against IND-CCA3.
Formally, the IND-CCA3 advantage measure is defined:

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Given adversary A, and an oracle encryption scheme∏ = (𝜿, 𝜺, 𝑫), the advantage measure of IND-CCA3 is
defined by (4):
𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
𝐼𝑁𝐷−𝐶𝐶𝐴3
(𝐴) = 𝑃𝑟 [𝐾
$
← 𝜘: 𝐴ℇ𝐾(.),𝐷𝐾(.)
⇒ 1] − 𝑃𝑟[𝐴ℇ𝐾($|.|.),⊥(.)
⇒ 1] (4)
Where 𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
(𝐴) is a measure of adversarial advantage of IND-CCA3, in [32] showed that every
encryption scheme meeting the IND-CCA3 notion also meets both the IND-CPA notion and the AUTH
notion and vice versa. The AUTH notion guarantee the security of ensuring the integrity of ciphertext.
Formally, the measure of adversarial advantage of IND-CPA and AUTH are defined by (5) and (6)
respectively.
Adv∏
IND−CPA
(A) = Pr [K
$
← ϰ: AℇK(.)
⇒ 1] − Pr[AℇK($|.|.)
⇒ 1] (5)
Adv∏
Auth
(A) = Pr [K
$
← ϰ: AℇK(.)
forges] (6)
Equation (6) can be recast as an experiment in which the adversary, given an ℇ𝑲 (·) oracle, attempts to
distinguish between a real decryption oracle and a bogus decryption oracle that returns Invalid on every input
ciphertext. This recast can be represented by the (7)
Adv∏
auth∗
(A) = Pr [K
$
← ϰ: AℇK(.),DK(.)
⇒ 1] − Pr[AℇK(.),⊥(.)
⇒ 1] (7)
Equation (4) can be rewritten in terms of (5) and (7):
Adv∏
IND−CCA3
(A) = Pr [K
$
← ϰ: AℇK(.),DK(.)
⇒ 1] − Pr[AℇK($|.|.),⊥(.)
⇒ 1 ]
= (Pr [K
$
← ϰ: AℇK(.),DK(.)
⇒ 1] − Pr[AℇK(.),⊥(.)
⇒ 1]) + (Pr[AℇK(.),⊥(.)
⇒ 1] − Pr[AℇK($|.|.),⊥(.)
⇒ 1])
Let B1 and B2 be the two adversaries capable of AUTH and IND-CPA respectively, then the measure of
adversarial advantage 𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
(𝐴) can be measured in terms of the adversarial advantage of B1 and B2.
𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
(𝐴) = 𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ∗
(𝐵1) + 𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
𝐼𝑁𝐷−𝐶𝑃𝐴
(𝐵2) (8)
IAECC is evaluated against 𝐼𝑁𝐷 − 𝐶𝐶𝐴3 in this research. A cryptosystem is said to be secure under 𝐼𝑁𝐷 −
𝐶𝐶𝐴3 if the adversarial advantage 𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
(𝐴) is negligible. The game for IND-CPA and IND-CCA is
simulated in order to verify whether or not IAECC is IND-CCA3.
a. IND-CPA: the game 0 in Table 2 gives distinct value of encrypted points for each block. Table 3 and
Table 4 show the results of the encryption of two blocks that contains the same value. In each case it
can be seen that. each time the attacker submits the same messages (𝒎𝒊,𝒋, 𝒎𝒊,𝒋) IAECC encryption
oracle returns (𝒄𝒊,𝒋 ≠ 𝒄𝒊+𝟏,𝒋). This shows that the attacker will find it very difficult to find out which
ciphertext belongs to which plaintext even with the samples of plaintext/ciphertext pair. This is because
the mapping between plaintext block and ciphertext block is not one-to-one mapping.
b. IND-CCA: Table 5 shows a block of plaintext 𝑚0 and how it was encrypted using IAECC with
appended signature. In Table 6, the encrypted point is modified by XORing the iv with a random value
R to obtain a modified encrypted point. This modified encrypted point was then submitted for
decryption but IAECC decryption returns an error message. This prevents the attacker from having the
opportunity to compare modified point with the encrypted point in Table 5. Hence the attacker cannot
win the game.
Table 1. IND-CPA game 0
𝑚𝑖,0 𝑚𝑖,1: 3333333333333333333333344444444444444444444444
i 𝑚𝑖,𝑏 b 𝑐𝑖,𝑏
1 33333333333333333333333 0 (1097748114407966986605873703748467691829460338770591897237,
4240406011164217225030410622972769495523064509111595973836 )
2 44444444444444444444444 1 (2905408739093402878637059497371287570771625614334891806504,
3821259102381211389142430789426336915721906240279458918383 )

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Table 2. IND-CPA Game 1a
𝑚𝑖,0, 𝑚𝑖,0: 3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
𝑚𝑖,𝑏 b 𝑐𝑖,𝑏
33333333333333333333333 0 ( 1097748114407966986605873703748467691829460338770591897237 ,
4240406011164217225030410622972769495523064509111595973836 )
33333333333333333333333 1 ( 2449612076858759344596169117205506126915740111109049671270 ,
1876668022142370300698035327836552245714157263410117886939 )
Table 3. IND-CPA Game 1b
𝑚𝑖,1, 𝑚𝑖,1: 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444
i 𝑚𝑖,𝑏 b 𝑐𝑖,𝑏
1 44444444444444444444444 0 (3482519432774353763529248619562031910947934849325919717209,
4550294802951404491094046444713769726958573788939094842781 )
2 44444444444444444444444 1 (3006760824386382941774675144870981847120905949496660971403,
3773187468547889137107325909042525720566923649883216749471 )
Table 4. IND-CCA Game 0
𝑚0 33333333333333333333333
𝑐0, 𝑖𝑣, 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 0x2cc5066bb6eb20a4ca01f22882f225305fb9412b8d2c56950x0',
ECDSASignature(c=3091638748216676367144710101552819383424206014947390681713,
d=2672717718749855055751385032704713632596933926364840628833)
Table 5. IND-CCA Game 1
𝑐0, 𝑖𝑣⨁𝑅, 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 '0x2f07b82f948bff8cc7c7af2c96211b423584244720d7f0000x0',
d=2672717718749855055751385032704713632596933926364840628833)
𝑚𝑏⨁𝑅 ← 𝑑𝑒𝑐(𝑘, 𝑐0, 𝑖𝑣⨁𝑅, 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛) Error message: invalid ciphertext
The adversaries B1 B2 could not win IND-CPA and IND-CCA games respectively. i.e. 𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
(𝐵2) =
0 and 𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ∗
(𝐵1) = 0, this implies that 𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
(𝐴) = 𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ∗
+ 𝐴𝑑𝑣∏
(𝐵2) = 0 + 0 =
0 , hence, IAECC is IND-CCA3.
5.1.2. Security against malleability attack
An encryption algorithm is said to be malleable if an adversary can transform a cipher-text into
another ciphertext which decrypts to a related plaintext. That is given an encryption of a plaintext m, it is
possible to generate another ciphertext which decrypts to f(m), for a known function f, without necessarily
knowing or learning m. Malleability attack is a type of cryptanalysis attack where modification of encrypted
data result in modification to decrypted message. With this attack, an attacker can give misleading
information to the recipient without the knowledge of the sender. A good cryptosystem should be non-
malleable. Table 7 shows sample of output when a sample plaintext was encrypted using IAECC encryption
module and an attempt is made to decrypt the modified encrypted data.
Table 6. Results of malleability attack test
plaintext 88888888888888888888888
Ciphertext ['0x8f85de8b5a6d730f222c74e9ef7b8189f03633f9bbd6c2f70x0',
d=621931775176316690818926789351489873483157764012435327223)]
Modified ciphertext ['0x53f91632bc6bcf268d444e70dc82847590fc036f5d3718f40x0',
d=621931775176316690818926789351489873483157764012435327223)]
Results of attempted decryption
of modified ciphertext
invalid ciphertext
As can be seen from Table 7. IAECC gives an error message stating that the ciphertext is invalid.
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5.1.3. Security against replay attack
A replay attack occurs when a cybercriminal snoops on a secure network communication, intercepts
it, and then illegally delays or resends it to mislead the recipient into doing what the hacker wants.
Figure 7(a) illustrates the adversary’s capability of carrying out replay attack. To prevent the possibility of
hacker’s capability of carrying out replay attack in IAECC, both sender and receiver establish a completely
random session key for each communication session. This means that no two sessions can use the same
session key because session key will only be valid for one transaction and can't be used again. As the
adversary need to establish new session key for resending the intercepted message and does not have access
to new parameters which are needed for generating valid new session key only the old session key which is at
the attacker’s disposal becomes invalid. This invalid session key will make the signature invalid, hence the
recipient will ignore the message. Figure 7(b) illustrates how IAECC prevents replay attack.
Figure 7. Security against replay attack (a) Adversary capability to perform replay attack and (b) IAECC
resistance to replay attack
5.1.4. Comparative security analysis of IAECC with existing ECC schemes
A. Comparison based on mapping schemes
Table 8 shows the results of the experiment. In [6] scheme mapped all the four blocks to the same
point. In [12] mapped the four blocks to two different points. The mapping scheme in the developed IAECC
however mapped each of the four blocks to different point on the elliptic curve.
Table 8. Comparison of existing mapping schemes with mapping schemes used in IECC
Plaintext: 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
[6] [12] IAECC
[[784637716923335095479473677900
95830201279443055800431409,85774
0959971287332615284443694443093
40978841013586287867],
[7846377169233350954794736779009
5830201279443055800431409,
4857740959971287332615284443694
44309340978841013586287867],
7846377169233350954794736779009
5830201279443055800431409,
4857740959971287332615284443694
44309340978841013586287867],
[7846377169233350954794736779009
5830201279443055800431409,
4857740959971287332615284443694
44309340978841013586287867]]
[[234909357196134779598588069035159
257665464553386283487730,
2049483738131415669402416949556232
112433098005908569212143],
[261255418896268268888484702383731
671238373571228463456961,
1699538033850443143676848815372268
696579123829363961918060],
[234909357196134779598588069035159
257665464553386283487730,
2049483738131415669402416949556232
112433098005908569212143],
[261255418896268268888484702383731
671238373571228463456961,
1699538033850443143676848815372268
696579123829363961918060]]
[[20686706978545444595443045279
1228993428014594458238323123,
992077588515792230373705353173
608652754090981423936289006],
[19639389190147561121898299323807
0148051292206840703100562,
385692710925472437727620248108422
3365079818205547885883432],
[37544631019679213631330991209
6594836626453316948075710704,
206615009136294286283176649312
1507846165941885050229288074],
[38263204739887138018468286236658
9750523673013967407939043,
117806438459723307853688319433121
4114919458199138510389243]]

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These results show that the mapping scheme in IAECC enables the scheme to be IND-CPA and IND-CCA
which the existing systems are not.
B. Comparative security analysis of IAECC with existing ECC cryptosystem
Table 9 shows the results of the comparative security analysis of IAECC with the other existing
ECC schemes. Comparison was carried out on the selected schemes based on whether the scheme is/is not
IND-CCA3, resistance to malleability attack (MA), checking the integrity of the ciphertext (IT), offering
authentication encryption (AE), or offering nonrepudiation (NR), is resistant to MIMA. Y and N represents
YES, NO respectively. Yes, means that the scheme is offering the feature in question, NO means that the
scheme is not offering the feature. The comparison in Table 9 shows that IAECC offers resistance to different
cryptanalysis attacks as well as offering authentication encryption and non-repudiation.
Table 9. Security analysis comparison of proposed scheme and other schemes
ECC schemes IND-CCA3 MA IT AE NR MIMA
[33] N N N N N N
[7] N N N N N N
[6] N N N N N N
[34] N N N N N N
[28] N N N N N N
[35] N N N N N N
[12] N Y Y Y Y Y
IAECC Y Y Y Y Y Y
5.1.5. Comparative performance analysis of IAECC
The two enhancements done to [12] that brought about the proposed IAECC are: the introduction of
the generation of initialization vector (InV) and modification of the mapping scheme as earlier explained.
The purpose of these enhancements are to solve the problem of how the initialization vector is to be securely
shared among the communicating parties and also to improve resistance to encryption attacks. It is therefore
necessary to check if these enhancements have negatively affected performance. Therefore, the performances
of the developed IAECC scheme are compared with existing schemes using encryption/decryption time,
throughput, and energy consumption during encryption and decryption processes as performance metrics.
Three schemes were selected for comparative performance analysis based on the above perfomance
metrics. Each of the three chosen schemes is a representation of three different groups: [6] represents the
group of schemes that do not apply Inv or any other methods to manipulate mapping points, [12] represents
the groups that uses InV and apply CBC mode at mapping level while IAECC represents the group that uses
InV and apply CBC at the end of encryption. An experiment was set up to measure the encryption/decryption
time of MCC key security process using timer built into the IAECC cryptosystem application. Different
plaintext sizes (in bytes) were encrypted and decrypted. When a particular is presented, the encryption and
decryption processes are carried out 10 rounds. In each round, the time taken for the encryption/decryption to
complete is measured. These 10 different measured time were added together and the average time was taken
as the encryption/decryption time. This procedure was used for each of the three schemes that were selected
for the performance comparison. For the calculation of encryption and decryption throughputs, the formulae
in (9) and (10) were used.
Encryption Throughput =
Data size
Time taken to encrypt the data
(9)
Decryption Throughput =
Data size
Time taken to decrypt the data
(10)
In order to calculate the energy consumption by the system during encryption/decryption processes,
the approximate average current consumption of the laptop used for the experiment when it is busy and the
CPU voltage were both collected from manual of the hp laptop used in conducting the experiment. The
average current consumption I is 100mA while the CPU voltage Vcc is 1.25v. The Energy consumption E in
Joule (J) of the laptop used for the experiment during encryption/decryption of different key sizes were
calculated using the formula: 𝑬 = 𝑽𝒄𝒄 × 𝑰 × 𝑻, where T represents encryption/ decryption time. Twenty
different data sizes were used, the data sizes in byte, the encryption time and decryption time obtained from
the experiment as well as calculated encryption throughput, decryption throughput, power consumption
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In order to ascertain the effects of changing the sizes of keys on the encryption/decryption time,
throughput and energy consumption during encryption and decryption processes on the schemes under
consideration, average encryption/decryption time, throughput and power consumption during
encryption/decryption processes were calculated and compared.
Table 10 shows the recorded encryption and decryption time during the experiment when different
key sizes were encrypted and decrypted using three different ECC schemes. Average encryption and
decryption time is calculated as shown in Table 11. Table 12 shows the calculated encryption and decryption
throughputs for the three ECC schemes under consideration. The energy consumption during encryption and
decryption processes for each of the three ECC schemes are shown in Table 13. Although the corresponding
encryption and decryption time in Table 10 appear to be the same for the three schemes for each data size,
there is variation in the values when the number of decimal places is considered. This explains the reason
why the average encryption/decryption time calculated are not the same for the three schemes under
consideration.
Table 10. Encryption and decryption time of three ECC schemes with different data sizes
Encryption and Decryption time (s)
Sengupta Almajed IECC
S/N Datasize(byte) Encryption Decryption Encryption Decryption Encryption Decryption
1 115 0.389078 0.483301 0.389078 0.483301 0.389078 0.483301
2 230 0.434338 0.518787 0.434338 0.518787 0.434338 0.518787
3 345 0.465585 0.559502 0.465585 0.559502 0.465585 0.559502
4 460 0.519219 0.602797 0.519219 0.602797 0.519219 0.602797
5 575 0.560923 0.626595 0.560923 0.626595 0.560923 0.626595
6 690 0.606371 0.673110 0.606371 0.673110 0.606371 0.673110
7 805 0.646975 0.707926 0.646975 0.707926 0.646975 0.707926
8 920 0.689171 0.740678 0.689171 0.740678 0.689171 0.740678
9 1035 0.724982 0.779279 0.724982 0.779279 0.724982 0.779279
10 1150 0.766760 0.823967 0.766760 0.823967 0.766760 0.823967
11 1265 0.810980 0.853082 0.810980 0.853082 0.810980 0.853082
12 1380 0.856045 0.887785 0.856045 0.887785 0.856045 0.887785
13 1495 0.903110 0.926059 0.903110 0.926059 0.903110 0.926059
14 1610 0.939079 0.965609 0.939079 0.965609 0.939079 0.965609
15 1725 0.990609 0.998431 0.990609 0.998431 0.990609 0.998431
16 1840 1.028811 1.033914 1.028811 1.033914 1.028811 1.033914
17 1955 1.080697 1.078274 1.080697 1.078274 1.080697 1.078274
18 2070 1.167239 1.161422 1.167239 1.161422 1.167239 1.161422
19 2185 1.279685 1.268402 1.279685 1.268402 1.279685 1.268402
20 2300 1.226619 1.214720 1.226619 1.214720 1.226619 1.214720
The bar chart in Figure 8 represents the information in Table 11. The bar chart shows that the
encryption and decryption time for the three ECC schemes are approximately the same. This result implies
that the modification done in IAECC does not make its encryption and decryption time higher than that of the
existing ECC schemes.
Figure 8. Comparative analysis of encryption/decryption time of ECC schemes
0,77
0,78
0,79
0,8
0,81
0,82
0,83
0,84
0,85
0,86
0,87
0,88
Encryption Decryption
Time
(s)
Different ECC schemes
Sengupta Almajed IAECC

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Table 11. Average encryption and decryption time of three ECC schemes
Average Encryption and Decryption Time (s)
S/N scheme Sengupta Almajed IAECC
1 Encryption 0.804314 0.827877 0.829769
2 Decryption 0.845182 0.865534 0.865895
The bar chart in Figure 9 represents the information in Table 12 where the encryption and
decryption throughputs of the three ECC schemes were compared. As can be seen, the encryption and
decryption throughputs of the three schemes are approximately equal. This result implies that the
modification in IECC does not make its encryption and decryption throughputs lower than the encryption and
decryption of the existing ECC schemes.
Figure 9. Comparative analysis of encryption/decryption throughput of ECC schemes
Table 12. Average encryption and decryption throughputs of three ECC schemes
Average Encryption and Decryption Throughput (byte/s)
S/N scheme Sengupta Almajed IAECC
1 Encryption 1367.911 1327.398 1322.962
2 Decryption 1307.233 1275.503 1273.339
Figure 10 represents the information in Table 13 where the encryption and decryption energy
consumption of the three ECC schemes were compared. The results in the Figure 9 reveals that the energy
consumption of the system during encryption and decryption are approximately equal. This result implies
that the modifications in IECC does not make the energy consumption of IECC higher than the energy
consumption in the existing ECC schemes.
Figure 10. Comparative analysis of encryption/decryption energy consumption of ECC schemes
1220
1240
1260
1280
1300
1320
1340
1360
1380
Throughput
(byte/s)
ECC Schemes
Sengupta Almajed IAECC
0,096
0,098
0,1
0,102
0,104
0,106
0,108
0,11
Energy
(J)
ECC Schemes
Semgupta Almajed IAECC

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Table 13. Average encryption and decryption energy consumption of three ECC schemes
Average Encryption and Decryption Energy Consumption (J)
S/N scheme Semgupta Almajed IAECC
1 Encryption 0.100539 0.103485 0.103721
2 Decryption 0.105648 0.108192 0.108237
6. CONCLUSION
In this study, flaws in the existing implementation of ECC schemes are identified. A new scheme is
created to address the flaws. This study also undertook a security analysis to present a proof for the resistance
of the developed scheme against specific encryption attacks. Additionally, the study conducted a
performance evaluation to compare the impact of the security enhancements of the proposed scheme on
encryption and decryption times, throughput, and power consumption with those of other schemes. The
experimental results of the security analysis show that IAECC is resistant to the security flaws that the
existing systems are vulnerable to. Again, the results of the comparative performance analysis of IAECC
with other systems show that the IAECC scheme performed just as well as the other schemes, with no
noticeable increase in computation overhead. So, IAECC is more secure than the existing schemes while
keeping the same amount of work to do.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Esau Taiwo Oladipupo received his first degree (B.Tech) Computer Engineering
from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology in 2003. He has also Master degree (M. Tech) Computer Science, from the same
institution in 2016. He has been a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science the Federal
Polytechnic Bida since 2009. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Ilorin, Nigeria. His research area includes Computer and Communication
Security, Crytography and Biometric. He can be contacted at email:
taiwotheophilus@gmail.com or oladipupo.esau@fedpolybida.edu.ng.
Oluwakemi Christiana Abikoye has a B.Sc, M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in
Computer Science. She is an academic staff at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty
of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. Her
research interests include Cryptography, Computer and Communication Network (Cyber)
Security, Biometrics, Human Computer Interaction and Text and Data Mining. She can be
contacted at email: abikoye.o@unilorin.edu.ng.

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