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Network Computing and Applications, Third IEEE International Symposium on (NCA'04)   pp. 169-174
Performance Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols on Handheld Devices
Patroklos G. Argyroudis, University of Dublin, Trinity College
Raja Verma, University of Dublin, Trinity College
Hitesh Tewari, University of Dublin, Trinity College
Donal O'Mahony, University of Dublin, Trinity College

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Abstract
The past few years have witnessed an explosive growth in the use of wireless mobile handheld devices as the enabling technology for accessing Internet-based services, as well as for personal communication needs in ad hoc networking environments. Most studies indicate that it is impossible to utilize strong cryptographic functions for implementing security protocols on handheld devices. Our work refutes this. Specifically, we present a performance analysis focused on three of the most commonly used security protocols for networking applications, namely SSL, S/MIME and IPsec. Our results show that the time taken to perform cryptographic functions is small enough not to significantly impact real-time mobile transactions and that there is no obstacle to the use of quite sophisticated cryptographic protocols on handheld mobile devices.
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Citation:  Patroklos G. Argyroudis, Raja Verma, Hitesh Tewari, Donal O'Mahony, "Performance Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols on Handheld Devices," nca, pp. 169-174,  Network Computing and Applications, Third IEEE International Symposium on (NCA'04),  2004