Neural Network-Based Face Detection
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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
Analysis of Key-Exchange Protocols and Their Use for Building Secure Channels
EUROCRYPT '01 Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques: Advances in Cryptology
Smart-Its Friends: A Technique for Users to Easily Establish Connections between Smart Artefacts
UbiComp '01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
The Resurrecting Duckling: Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Security Protocols
Random Key Predistribution Schemes for Sensor Networks
SP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
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
Security in wireless sensor networks
Communications of the ACM - Wireless sensor networks
TinySec: a link layer security architecture for wireless sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Confidence-based data management for personal area sensor networks
DMSN '04 Proceeedings of the 1st international workshop on Data management for sensor networks: in conjunction with VLDB 2004
Seeing-Is-Believing: Using Camera Phones for Human-Verifiable Authentication
SP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Shake them up!: a movement-based pairing protocol for CPU-constrained devices
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Secure Device Pairing based on a Visual Channel (Short Paper)
SP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Loud and Clear: Human-Verifiable Authentication Based on Audio
ICDCS '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Message-in-a-bottle: user-friendly and secure key deployment for sensor nodes
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
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
HAPADEP: Human-Assisted Pure Audio Device Pairing
ISC '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Security
The personal sensor network: a user-centric monitoring solution
Proceedings of the ICST 2nd international conference on Body area networks
Automated Device Pairing for Asymmetric Pairing Scenarios
ICICS '08 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communications Security
Wireless sensor networks for personal health monitoring: Issues and an implementation
Computer Communications
Usability analysis of secure pairing methods
FC'07/USEC'07 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Financial cryptography and 1st International conference on Usable Security
Efficient device pairing using "Human-comparable" synchronized audiovisual patterns
ACNS'08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Applied cryptography and network security
Secure communications over insecure channels based on short authenticated strings
CRYPTO'05 Proceedings of the 25th annual international conference on Advances in Cryptology
SAS-Based authenticated key agreement
PKC'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography
Efficient mutual data authentication using manually authenticated strings
CANS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Cryptology and Network Security
Authenticated key agreement with key re-use in the short authenticated strings model
SCN'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Security and cryptography for networks
KALwEN: a new practical and interoperable key management scheme for body sensor networks
Security and Communication Networks
How groups of users associate wireless devices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Wireless sensor networks have several useful applications in commercial and defense settings, as well as user-centric personal area networks. To establish secure (point-to-point and/or broadcast) communication channels among the nodes of a wireless sensor network is a fundamental security task. To this end, a plethora of so-called key pre-distribution schemes have been proposed in the past, e.g., [25][9][19][8][5]. All these schemes, however, rely on shared secret(s), which are assumed to be pre-loaded onto the sensor nodes, e.g., during the manufacturing process. In this paper, we consider the problem of user-assisted secure initialization of sensor network necessary to bootstrap key pre-distribution. This is a challenging problem due to the level of user burden involved in initializing multiple (often large number of) sensor nodes and lack of input and output user-interfaces on sensor motes. We propose a novel method for secure sensor node initialization based on a visual out-of-band channel that utilizes minimal output interface in the form of LED(s) already available on most off-the-shelf sensor motes. The proposed method requires only a little extra cost, is efficient and reasonably scalable. Moreover, based on a usability study that we conducted, the method turns out to be quite user-friendly and easy to administer by everyday computer users.