# An overview of memristive cryptography

## TL;DR

This paper reviews memristive cryptography within the context of lightweight hardware cryptography, emphasizing its potential for secure, resource-efficient data protection in edge devices, and highlights the need for specialized cryptanalysis methods.

## Contribution

It provides an overview of memristive cryptography, contrasting it with traditional methods, and underscores the necessity for developing memristive cryptanalysis techniques.

## Key findings

- Memristive cryptography offers promising lightweight security solutions.
- Current cryptanalysis methods are insufficient for memristive cryptography.
- The paper highlights the need for specialized cryptanalysis approaches.

## Abstract

Smaller, smarter and faster edge devices in the Internet of things era demands secure data analysis and transmission under resource constraints of hardware architecture. Lightweight cryptography on edge hardware is an emerging topic that is essential to ensure data security in near-sensor computing systems such as mobiles, drones, smart cameras, and wearables. In this article, the current state of memristive cryptography is placed in the context of lightweight hardware cryptography. The paper provides a brief overview of the traditional hardware lightweight cryptography and cryptanalysis approaches. The contrast for memristive cryptography with respect to traditional approaches is evident through this article, and need to develop a more concrete approach to developing memristive cryptanalysis to test memristive cryptographic approaches is highlighted.