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The Energy Cost of SSL in Deeply Embedded Systems
Overview As the number of potential applications for tiny, battery-powered, "Mote"-like, deeply embedded devices grows, so does the need to simplify and secure interactions with such devices. Embedding a secure web server (capable of HTTP over SSL, aka HTTPS), enables these devices to be monitored and controlled securely via a user-friendly, browser-based interface. This paper presents the first empirical energy analysis of the Internet's dominant security protocol, SSL, on highly constrained devices. The author has enhanced Sizzle, the tiny-footprint HTTPS stack, with energy conserving features and measured its performance on a Telos mote. The paper shows that the key exchange phase, which consumes much more energy than bulk encryption and authentication, amortizes well over the transmission of a few kilobytes of application data.
| Publisher | Sun Microsystems | File Format | |
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| Date Published | June 2008 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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