Paper Info
Title
A ZKP-based identification scheme for base nodes in wireless sensor networks
Abstract
Most of the published work on authentication mechanisms for wireless sensor networks establishes secure authentication for sensor nodes, but not for the base node that is in fact required to authenticate other nodes in the same network. This situation can lead to an attack whereby a malicious party masquerades as the base station and fraudulently authenticates other legitimate nodes to capture and/or inject messages within the network. The trust assumption in the existing literature with regard to base stations (i.e., implicitly trusting the base station) presents a serious security loophole. We address this problem by proposing a protocol that will help build a base station authentication mechanism in the framework of a one-hop mesh network and later extend it to a multi-hop framework. Our network would consist of a commissioning/installation device, and several forests of nodes (a base node and other nodes). The installation device would be responsible for deploying nodes in an area selected and would distribute information to them as necessary. We shall use a modification of the Guillou-Quisquater identification scheme as our Zero-Knowledge (ZK) protocol in conjunction with the μTESLA protocol for authenticated broadcast, to authenticate the base station.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1066677.1066754
SAC
Keywords
Field
DocType
base node,deploying node,installation device,base station authentication mechanism,wireless sensor network,one-hop mesh network,base station,secure authentication,tesla protocol,zkp-based identification scheme,authentication mechanism,mesh network,ad hoc network,security protocol,zero knowledge,security protocols,base stations
Wireless network,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Authentication protocol,Mobile wireless sensor network,Wireless ad hoc network,Wireless mesh network,Network Access Control,Wireless sensor network
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-964-0
4
0.63
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dev Anshul140.63
Suman Roy2217.25