A Correctness Proof of a Mesh Security Architecture

Kuhlman, Doug; Moriarty, Ryan; Braskich, Tony; Emeott, S.; Tripunitar, Mahesh

doi:10.5772/49051

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“…The proof methodology of the PCL is described in . The detailed proof of the standard MSA security has been presented by using the PCL in . We derive the proof of the MKHSH scheme based on the work in and present the required modifications in order to accommodate the security requirements for our proposed SEDKR scheme.…”

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“…Based on the work in , Figure presents the modified strands, the invariants, and the security goals of the MA and the MKD. A strand is the sequence of actions that are being performed by the designated thread.…”

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“…The aspirant MA is denoted by X, and the MKD is denoted by T. The terms INFO X and INFO T include the mesh network and the security domain identifiers with a list of the supported protocols by the MKD. Select () function is used for the simultaneous selection of protocol options from INFO X and INFO T . Also to be noted, the HASH component included in message 1 is a one‐way HASH and not a keyed HASH computation, used for encrypting the other messages.…”

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Security enhancement for dynamic key refreshment in neighborhood area network of smart grid

Toor

2016

Security Comm. Networks

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Wireless mesh networks are being considered as the most adequate topology for deployment in the neighborhood area network (NAN) domain in the smart‐grid infrastructure, because its features such as self‐organizing, scalability, and cost‐efficiency complement to the NAN requirements. To provide security functionality to the NAN, the key refreshment strategy of the simultaneous authentication of equals or the efficient mesh security association protocol is an efficient way to make the network more resilient against various cyberattacks. However, it is discovered that when the key refreshment strategy is used, the efficient mesh security association protocol demonstrates a security vulnerability, leading to denial of service attacks. In this paper, a simple hash‐based encryption scheme is proposed to prevent the unprotected messages from being replayed by the adversary with an enhancement to the key refreshment scheme to improve the resilience of the mesh key holder security handshake. The Protocol Composition Logic is used to describe the logical correctness of the proposed scheme, while the Process Analysis Toolkit is used to formally verify the security functionality against the malicious attacks. The efficiency analysis and the simulation results prove that the proposed scheme is reliable and efficient. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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