Evaluation of Key Management Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks

Jurnečka, Filip; Stehlík, Martin; Matyáš, Václav

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11851-2_16

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“…We extend the KMSforWSN framework, a tool for automated evaluation of the properties of key management schemes (KMSs) in WSNs, which is built on top of MiXiM [15], a WSN framework for the OMNeT++ simulator [16]. This framework was introduced by Jurnecka et al in [17], and our extension is available as an open-source tool ().…”

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confidence: 99%

Crowdsourced Security Reconstitution for Wireless Sensor Networks: Secrecy Amplification

Ostadal

Matyáš

Švenda

et al. 2019

Sensors

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Research in the area of security for Wireless Sensor Networks over the past two decades has yielded many interesting findings. We focus on the topic of (re-)securing link keys between sensor nodes through so-called secrecy amplification (SA) protocols. Crowdsourcing is at the very heart of these SA protocols. Not only do SA protocols work wonders even for low-level constrained nodes with no tamper resistance, they exhibit astonishing performance in networks under significant attacker control. Our work shows that even when 50% of all network links are compromised, SA protocols can re-secure over 90% of the link keys through an intriguingly simple crowdsourcing mechanism. These protocols allow us to re-take control without any broadly coordinated cooperation, without knowledge of the compromised links, with only very limited knowledge of each particular network node and independently of decisions made by other nodes. Our article first outlines the principles of and presents existing approaches to SA, introducing most of the important related concepts, then presents novel conclusive results for a realistic attacker model parametrised by attacker behaviour and capabilities. We undertook this work using two very different simulators, and we present here the results of analyses and detailed comparisons that have not previously been available. Finally, we report the first real, non-simulated network test results for the most attractive SA protocol, our implementations of which are available as open-source code for two platforms: Arduino and TinyOS. This work demonstrates the practical usability (and the attractive performance) of SA, serving as a ripe technology enabler for (among others) networks with many potentially compromised low-level devices.

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Section: Attacker Behaviour and Capabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%