Authors : Jury O. Balgoon; Kulud H.Ma Chung; Latifah M.Alharthi

Volume/Issue : Volume 10 - 2025, Issue 7 - July

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Abstract : With a rapid influx of endeavors into the sixth-generation (6G) wireless realm, network security is becoming of paramount importance. This work investigates strategies to couple Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) with potentially reinforcing the existing 6G security architecture. ECC constitutes a highly secure and efficient key exchange and authentication mechanism, requiring much smaller keys for excellent-level encryption. With such properties, ECC fits very well in the resource-constrained environments envisioned with 6G, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem and smart home applications. With the active consideration of performance, scalability, and lightweight communication security, ECC- based strategies will render the required protection against adversarial attacks in high-speed and high-density networks. The strengths of ECC in securing communication, protecting user data, and ensuring privacy in multiple 6G applications have been elucidated in this paper.

Keywords : 6G Security, 6G Protection, Anomaly Detection, Threat Forecasting.

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