Cryptanalysis on Symmetric Key Techniques Based Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

2015 ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Younsung Choi ◽  
Youngsook Lee ◽  
Dongho Won
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Symmetric Key ◽  
Key Techniques

scholarly journals An efficient approach for secured communication in wireless sensor networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1641
Author(s):  
Jyothi R. ◽  
Nagaraj G. Cholli
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Limited Bandwidth ◽  
New Type ◽  
Symmetric Key ◽  
Secured Communication

Wireless sensor network (WSN) have limited bandwidth, low computational functions, energy constraints. Inspite of these constraints, WSN is useful where communication happens without infrastructure support. The main concern of WSN is the security as the sensor nodes may be attacked and information may be hacked. Security of WSN should have the capability to ensure that the message received was sent by the particular sent node and not modified during transmission. WSN applications require lightweight and strong authentication mechanisms for obtaining data from unprivileged users. In wireless sensor networks, authentication is the effective method to stop unauthorized and undisrupted communication service. In order to strengthen the authenticated communication, several researchers have developed mechanisms. Some of the techniques work with identifying the attacked node or detecting injected bogus message in the network. Encryption and decryption are the popular methods of providing the security. These are based on either public-key or symmetric-key cryptosystems Many of the existing solutions have limitations in communication and computational expertise. Also, the existing mechanisms lack in providing strength and scalability of the network. In order address these issues; a polynomial based method was introduced in recent days. Key distribution is a significant aspect in key management in WSNs. The simplest method of distribution of key is by hand which was used in the days of couriers. Now a days, most distribution of keys is done automatically. The automatic distribution of keys is essential and convenient in networks that require two parties to transmit their security keys in the same communication medium. In this work, a new type of key exchange mechanism is proposed. The proposed method for authentication among sensor nodes proves to be promising as per the simulation results. The nodes which are unknown to each other setup a private however arbitrary key for the symmetric key cryptosystem.

scholarly journals A PUBLIC KEY DISTRIBUTION AND BROADCAST AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

2015 ◽  
pp. 133-137
Author(s):  
SHANTALA DEVI PATIL ◽  
VIJAYAKUMAR B P
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Distribution ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Communication Pattern ◽  
Broadcast Communication ◽  
Broadcast Authentication

In Wireless Sensor Networks, Broadcast communication is the most fundamental and prevailing communication pattern. Securing the broadcast messages from the adversary is critical issue. To defend the WSNs against the adversary attacks of impersonation of a broadcast source or receiver, modification/fabrication of the broadcast message, attacker injecting malicious traffic to deplete the energy from the sensors, broadcast authentication of source and receivers becomes extremely inevitable. In this paper, we propose a novel ECC based public key distribution protocol and broadcast authentication scheme. The proposed method provides high security and has low overhead.

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