Reliable broadcast message authentication in wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Taketsugu Yao;Shigeru Fukunaga;Toshihisa Nakai

  • Affiliations:
  • Ubiquitous System Laboratories, Corporate Research & Development Center, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan;Ubiquitous System Laboratories, Corporate Research & Development Center, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan;Ubiquitous System Laboratories, Corporate Research & Development Center, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • EUC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Emerging Directions in Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Due to the low-cost nature of sensor network nodes, we cannot generally assume the availability of a high-performance CPU and tamper-resistant hardware. Firstly, we propose a reliable broadcast message authentication working under the above-mentioned circumstances. The proposed scheme, although based on symmetric cryptographic primitives, is secure against anyone who knew the message authentication key as well as the malicious router nodes in multi-hop networks. The proposed scheme consists of three steps; (i) reliable broadcast of a message, (ii) legitimate acknowledgments from all the nodes in the network, and (iii) disclosure of the message authentication key. Secondly, we propose a way to reduce the amount of the stored information until the disclosure of the key, in which the server transmits the message integrity code of a message before transmitting the message. Finally, we consider the characteristic and the security issues of the proposed schemes.