Performance Evaluation of CAESAR Authenticated Encryption on SROS2

Abstract

With the expansion of Industry 4.0, the factory automation (FA) system has become more complex due to wireless communication between multiple devices. Therefore, short-term development and secure communication are required for development cost and cyber-security issues. For this reason, a secure robot operating system 2 (SROS2) was developed. SROS2 is an open-source platform applicable to industrial robots. SROS2 achieves short-term development with various libraries and implements encryption and authentication by embedding advanced encryption standard - Galois/counter mode (AES-GCM). On the other hand, AES-GCM has been reported to be vulnerable to spoofing. Therefore, a secure encryption algorithm to replace AES-GCM is required. In addition, the system must be able to operate without problems after replacement. For these reasons, this study embeds secure authenticated encryption instead of AES-GCM in SROS2. The results of an evaluation experiment on the latency of the encryption algorithm showed that Ascon is more effective than AES-GCM.