Tampering with motes: real-world physical attacks on wireless sensor networks

Authors:
Alexander Becher;Zinaida Benenson;Maximillian Dornseif
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany;Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany;Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Venue:
SPC'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Security in Pervasive Computing
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Most security protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSN) assume that the adversary can gain full control over a sensor node through direct physical access (node capture attack). But so far the amount of effort an attacker has to undertake in a node capture attack is unknown. In our project we evaluate different physical attacks against sensor node hardware. Detailed knowledge about the effort needed for physical attacks allows to fine tune security protocols in WSNs so they provide optimal protection at minimal cost.