Research Article
An Elliptic Curve Menezes–Qu–Vanston-Based Authentication and Encryption Protocol for IoT
Table 3
Evaluation of single key-pair generation.
| Methods | ECC-bits | Time (μs) | Energy (μJ) |
| Traditional PKI based | P-160 | 9.493 | 6.1 | P-192 | 13.25 | 18 | P-224 | 16.2425 | 27.34 |
| Cloud-based protocol | P-160 | 2.002 | 0.797 | P-192 | 6.258 | 1.13 | P-224 | 5.767 | 2.01 |
| Edge base proposed protocol | P-160 | 1.305 | 0.634 | P-192 | 3.893 | 0.93 | P-224 | 4.538 | 1.89 |
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