Using encryption for authentication in large networks of computers
Communications of the ACM
SPINS: security protocols for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A key-management scheme for distributed sensor networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Perfectly-Secure Key Distribution for Dynamic Conferences
CRYPTO '92 Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Random Key Predistribution Schemes for Sensor Networks
SP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
A pairwise key pre-distribution scheme for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Establishing pairwise keys in distributed sensor networks
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Establishing Pairwise Keys for Secure Communication in Ad Hoc Networks: A Probabilistic Approach
ICNP '03 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
Security in wireless mobile and sensor networks
Wireless communications systems and networks
Studying Software Implementations of Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ITNG '06 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations
How public key cryptography influences wireless sensor node lifetime
Proceedings of the fourth ACM workshop on Security of ad hoc and sensor networks
Security for Wireless Sensor Networks (Advances in Information Security)
Security for Wireless Sensor Networks (Advances in Information Security)
Wireless Sensor Networks: Signal Processing and Communications
Wireless Sensor Networks: Signal Processing and Communications
The energy cost of cryptographic key establishment in wireless sensor networks
ASIACCS '07 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM symposium on Information, computer and communications security
A survey of key management schemes in wireless sensor networks
Computer Communications
TinyECC: A Configurable Library for Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks
IPSN '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
On the Energy Cost of Communication and Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks
WIMOB '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & Communication
TinyECCK: Efficient Elliptic Curve Cryptography Implementation over GF(2m) on 8-Bit Micaz Mote
IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
Enabling full-size public-key algorithms on 8-bit sensor nodes
ESAS'07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Security and privacy in ad-hoc and sensor networks
NanoECC: testing the limits of elliptic curve cryptography in sensor networks
EWSN'08 Proceedings of the 5th European conference on Wireless sensor networks
Efficient implementation of public key cryptosystems on mote sensors (short paper)
ICICS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Information and Communications Security
Energy-efficient software implementation of long integer modular arithmetic
CHES'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cryptographic hardware and embedded systems
Tampering with motes: real-world physical attacks on wireless sensor networks
SPC'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Security in Pervasive Computing
Group signatures are suitable for constrained devices
ICISC'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Information security and cryptology
Fast multi-precision multiplication for public-key cryptography on embedded microprocessors
CHES'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Cryptographic hardware and embedded systems
Using zero knowledge to share a little knowledge: bootstrapping trust in device networks
SSS'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Stabilization, safety, and security of distributed systems
Twisted edwards-form elliptic curve cryptography for 8-bit AVR-based sensor nodes
Proceedings of the first ACM workshop on Asia public-key cryptography
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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are playing a vital role in an ever-growing number of applications ranging from environmental surveillance over medical monitoring to home automation. Since WSNs are often deployed in unattended or even hostile environments, they can be subject to various malicious attacks, including the manipulation and capture of nodes. The establishment of a shared secret key between two or more individual nodes is one of the most important security services needed to guarantee the proper functioning of a sensor network. Despite some recent advances in this field, the efficient implementation of cryptographic key establishment for WSNs remains a challenge due to the resource constraints of small sensor nodes such as the MICAz mote. In this paper we present a lightweight implementation of the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange for ZigBee-compliant sensor nodes equipped with an ATmega128 processor running the TinyOS operating system. Our implementation uses a 192-bit prime field specified by the NIST as underlying algebraic structure and requires only 5.20 ·106 clock cycles to compute a scalar multiplication if the base point is fixed and known a priori. A scalar multiplication using a random base point takes about 12.33 ·106 cycles. Our results show that a full ECDH key exchange between two MICAz motes consumes an energy of 57.33 mJ (including radio communication), which is significantly better than most previously reported ECDH implementations on comparable platforms.