Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is spreading its root nearly in every field and because of its widespread growth it is vulnerable to many serious attacks. For such reason, security demands increases in WSNs. For achieving high level of security, cryptography plays an important role. Though there exist so many symmetric and asymmetric cryptography algorithms, but they have some drawbacks in terms of key sizes, power consumption, encryption time, etc. in them. So the main objective of this paper is to analyse and compare the asymmetric cryptography algorithm (RSA and ECC) and symmetric cryptography algorithm (AES) with proper implementation. These algorithms are analysed on the basis of total execution time of the algorithm, power & energy consumption and estimated memory requirement for the algorithm.

Cryptography, symmetric algorithm, asymmetric algorithms

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