Numerous cluster-based key management schemes have been proposed to secure sensor networks. Nevertheless, most existing schemes did not take the legitimacy of the clusterhead into consideration, which might highly vulnerable to several attacks such as sinkhole; wormhole and Selective-Forwarding, besides, the network should deal with an addition of new nodes and deletion of nodes being captured. In this paper, a modification of dynamic rekeying distribution was presented to secure communication in cluster-based protocols. All the communications in the protocols are properly authenticated using Elliptic Curve Digital Signature scheme. The simulation results demonstrate that our proposal SRC (secure rotation of cluster-head) is more energy-efficient compared to Sec-LEACH and GS-LEACH and have better scalability as well as resilience to node capture.