An one-way function based framework for pairwise key establishment in sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Liran Ma;Amin Y. Teymorian;Kai Xing;Ding-Zhu Du

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Technology, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA.;Department of Computer Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.;Department of Computer Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.;Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Security and Networks
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We develop a one-way function based key establishment framework for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The proposed framework allows sensors to establish pairwise session keys at an arbitrary network operation stage using pre-loaded one-way functions. We also present an efficient instantiation of the proposed framework using Cellular Automata (CA). The analysis based on the CA instantiation indicates that our framework possesses a number of nice properties: inherent support for rekeying; quasi-perfect resilience against node compromise; computational efficiency; strong cryptographic strength of generated pairwise keys; a high probability to establish pairwise keys between sensors.