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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-2427</article-id>
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        <article-title>Elliptic curve-inspired graph neural networks for lightweight cryptographic verification</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Sairise</surname>
            <given-names>Raju M</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Electronics &amp; Telecommunication Engineering, Yadavrao Tasgaonkar College of Engineering and Management, Bardi, Maharashtra, 410201, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Pawar</surname>
            <given-names>Nilesh M</given-names>
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          <aff>Department of Information Technology, Yadavrao Tasgaonkar Institute of Engineering and Management, Bardi, Maharashtra, 410201, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Thakur</surname>
            <given-names>Supriya Nilesh</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Electrical Engineering, Karvenagar, Marathawada Mitra Mandal’s College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, 411052, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Shelke</surname>
            <given-names>Atmaram</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Symbiosis Law School, Pune (SLS-P), Symbiosis Centre for Advanced Legal Studies and Research (SCALSAR), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, 411014, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Nanche</surname>
            <given-names>Bhushan Marutirao</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Information Technology, Akurdi, D. Y. Patil College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, 411044, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Tamta</surname>
            <given-names>Vinay Prasad</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Information Technology, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, 246174, India</aff>
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      </contrib-group>
      <volume>28</volume>
      <issue>5-B</issue>
      <fpage>1923</fpage>
      <lpage>1934</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
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        <p>Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is considered as a secure communication encryption method due to its high security-per-bit and efficiency on low power devices. Yet, the validation of ECC-based tasks (e.g. signature validation, key agreement) can be a heavy overhead for lightweight sensors and devices. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework, CurveGNN which uses Graph Neural Network (GNN) with elliptic curve-based structures to quickly and heuristically verify cryptography attributes. By converting the ECC point addition relations and scalar multiplications to graph-structured data, CurveGNN can learn signatures (e.g., ECDSA) validity with marginal arithmetic overhead. We detail the graph construction, GNN architecture, and training strategy. We demonstrate via experiments on embedded-class microcontrollers that CurveGNN achieves more than 95% verification accuracy, with average energy saving over 40% for ECC verification compared to ECC verification, respectively. From our results we observed that CurveGNN is a feasible lightweight verifier in Internet of Things and edge-computing environments.</p>
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        <kwd>Block-cipher security</kwd>
        <kwd>Search-space pruning</kwd>
        <kwd>Automated key recovery</kwd>
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