• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1406-1407
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 하드웨어적으로 제한사항이 있는 장비에서 최소한의 보안성을 제공하기 위해 XOR 방식의 Pair-wise 키값을 생성하는 간단한 보안기법을 제안한다. 제안한 보안 기법은 Random Key Predistribution 을 통하여 장비별 시간값과 고유값을 XOR 하여 서로 교환한 후, 상호 교환한 값을 다시 XOR 하여 두 장비간의 Pair-wise 키값을 생성한다. 이후, 지속적으로 변화되는 시간값으로 인해 매 통신시마다 다른 Pair-wise 키값을 사용할 수 있을 것이다. 기존의 보안알고리즘(DES, AES 등)의 연산 보다 매우 간단하고, 노드별 독특한 키 변화패턴을 통하여 키 유출이 어려우며, 장비가 캡처당하는 공격이 발생하더라도 전체 네트워크의 보안성이 저하되지 않는다는 장점을 가진다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.6
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• pp.441-450
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• 2010

Recently, a lot of interest is increased in sensor network which gathers various data through many sensor nodes deployed in wired and wireless network environment. However, because of the limitation in memory, computation, and energy of the sensor nodes, security problem is very important issue. In sensor network, not only the security problem, but also computing power should be seriously considered. In this paper, considering these characteristics, we make the sensor network consist of normal sensor nodes and clusterheaders with enough space and computing power, and propose a group key rekeying scheme adopting PCGR(Predistribution and local Collaborationbased Group Rekeying) for secure group communication. In our proposal, we enhance the security by minimizing the risk to safety of the entire network through verifying the new key value from clusterheader by sensor nodes. That is, to update the group keys, clusterheaders confirm sensor nodes through verifying the information from sensor nodes and send the new group keys back to authentic member nodes. The group keys sent back by the clusterheaders are verified again by sensor nodes. Through this mutual authentication, we can check if clusterheaders are compromised or not. Qualnet simulation result shows that our scheme not only guarantees secure group key rekeying but also decreasesstorage and communication overhead.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.599-606
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• 2009

For many mission-critical related wireless sensor network applications such as military and homeland security, user's access restriction is necessary to be enforced by access control mechanisms for different access rights. Public key-based access control schemes are more attractive than symmetric-key based approaches due to high scalability, low memory requirement, easy key-addition/revocation for a new node, and no key predistribution requirement. Although Wang et al. recently introduced a promising access control scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), it is still burdensome for sensors and has several security limitations (it does not provide mutual authentication and is strictly vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks). This paper presents an energy-efficient access control scheme based on ECC to overcome these problems and more importantly to provide dominant energy-efficiency. Through analysis and simulation based evaluations, we show that the proposed scheme overcomes the security problems and has far better energy-efficiency compared to current scheme proposed byWang et al.