One-time sensors: A novel concept to mitigate node-capture attacks

Kemal Bicakci*, Chandana Gamage, Bruno Crispo, Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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Abstract

Dealing with captured nodes is generally accepted as the most difficult challenge to wireless sensor network security. By utilizing the low-cost property of sensor nodes, we introduce the novel concept of one-time sensors to mitigate node-capture attacks. The basic idea is to load each sensor with only one cryptographic token so that the captured node can inject only a single malicious message into the network. In addition, sybil attacks are avoided and explicit revocation is not necessary using one-time sensors. By using public key techniques, one-way hash functions and Merkle's hash tree, we also show efficient implementations and interesting tradeoffs for one-time sensors.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSecurity and Privacy in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks - Second European Workshop, ESAS 2005, Revised Selected Papers
Pages80-90
Number of pages11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
EventSecond European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, ESAS 2005 - Visegrad, Hungary
Duration: 13 Jul 200514 Jul 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3813 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceSecond European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, ESAS 2005
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityVisegrad
Period13/07/0514/07/05

Keywords

  • Merkle's hash tree
  • Node-capture attack
  • One-time sensor
  • Sensor network security
  • Sybil attack

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