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Practical Attacks on Hybrid Group Key Management for SOHAN

  • Liew, Jiun-Hau (Graduate School Design and IT of Dongseo University) ;
  • Ong, Ivy (Graduate School of Design and IT in Dongseo University) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Gon (Division of Computer & Information Engineering, Dongseo University) ;
  • Lim, Hyo-Taek (Division of Computer and Information Engineering) ;
  • Lee, Hoon-Jae (School of Computer and Information Engineering at Dongseo University.)
  • Received : 2010.07.19
  • Accepted : 2010.08.11
  • Published : 2010.10.30
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Abstract

Lim et al. proposed a Hybrid Group Key Management scheme for Hierarchical Self-Organizing Sensor Network in 2008 to provide a secure way to pass down the group key for cluster-based communication. This paper presents two practical attacks on the scheme proposed by Lim et al. by tampering sensor nodes of a cluster to recover necessary secret keys and by exploiting the IDS employed by the scheme. The first attack enables a long-term but slow data fabrication while other attack causes more severe DoS on the access to cluster sensor nodes.

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