CRYPTO '89 Proceedings on Advances in cryptology
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
SPINS: security protocols for sensor networks
Wireless Networks
CRYPTO '97 Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
The dynamic behavior of a data dissemination protocol for network programming at scale
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Secure code distribution in dynamically programmable wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Securing the deluge Network programming system
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Sluice: Secure Dissemination of Code Updates in Sensor Networks
ICDCS '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
TinySeRSync: secure and resilient time synchronization in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 13th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Optimal trade-off for Merkle tree traversal
Theoretical Computer Science
Exploring Symmetric Cryptography for Secure Network Reprogramming
ICDCSW '07 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
Comparison of innovative signature algorithms for WSNs
WiSec '08 Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security
A secure and resilient WSN roadside architecture for intelligent transport systems
WiSec '08 Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security
Secure multi-hop network programming with multiple one-way key chains
WiSec '08 Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security
Seluge: Secure and DoS-Resistant Code Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
IPSN '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Fractal Merkle tree representation and traversal
CT-RSA'03 Proceedings of the 2003 RSA conference on The cryptographers' track
Proceedings of the 5th ACM symposium on QoS and security for wireless and mobile networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on security and resilience for smart devices and applications
Scatter – secure code authentication for efficient reprogramming in wireless sensor networks
International Journal of Sensor Networks
Information Systems and e-Business Management
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSAC symposium on Information, computer and communications security
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Several mechanisms have been proposed to efficiently authenticate multicast of finite data streams as needed for code image updates in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). They involve either a public-key digital signature or loose time synchronization between the sender and the receivers. What usually does not get any attention is the program memory (ROM) occupied by these mechanisms which do not fulfill the primary task of a sensor network. An optimized implementation of the elliptic curve digital signature scheme occupies up to 25% of the ROM of a TelosB node; the same or even more is needed for time synchronization schemes. Therefore, if sensor networks do not need public-key operations or time synchronization for their primary task, these SCU mechanism are not suitable for coexistence with the application code on the sensor nodes. This work contributes in two directions. Firstly, we propose a stateful-verifier T-time signature scheme based on Merkle's one-time signature. Secondly, we propose a protocol exploiting our signature scheme for securing existing code image update protocols for WSNs minimizing ROM overhead to 1% on TelosB motes.