Secured IoT Through Hashing Using MD5

Abstract

With the boom of Internet of Things, the embedded devices are being able to connect to the internet and intercommunicate with each other. Internets of Things find many applications in various fields but the emergence of IoT have put the embedded device communication and interaction at risk. There are various security conditions that need to be satisfied to be able to securely connect the embedded device to the internet. MD5 is a hashing algorithm which outputs a message digest which is of fixed length derived from an input of arbitrary length. It has various features that can be used to satisfy the security concern in IoT. The system is proposed to allow the use of MD5 for securing the embedded device from attacks when connected to the internet to become a part of the Internet of Things. A prologue to the embedded system and Internet of Things has been given. The various features that a security algorithm needs to fulfil have been discussed. By keeping this as the base, the proposed system's compatibility and fulfilment with the required features was checked and the final conclusion of using MD5 in Embedded System for securing IoT was arrived.