Lightweight Secure Protocols for Low-Powered IoT Devices: Modern Ciphers, Authentication, and Machine Learning-Based Intrusion Detection
This paper provides the design and simulation of a lightweight cryptographic protocol on smart house IoT devices using ChaCha20 and Ascon-AEAD128. The protocol, implemented in Python 3.14.6 and tested on a virtual ESP32 platform using Wokwi and CloudAMQP, uses stream cipher encryption with authenticated message tagging...