Tiny 3-TLS: A trust delegation protocol for wireless sensor networks

  • Sepideh Fouladgar
  • , Bastien Mainaud
  • , Khaled Masmoudi
  • , Hossam Afifi

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Abstract

Adapting security protocols to wireless sensor networks architectures is a challenging research field because of their specific constraints. Actually, sensors are computationally weak devices, unable to perform heavy cryptographic operations like classical asymmetric algorithms (RSA, Diffie-Hellman). In this paper, we introduce Tiny 3-TLS, an extension and adaptation of TLS handshake sub-protocol that allows establishing secure communications between sensing nodes and remote monitoring terminals. Our protocol aims at guaranteeing the integrity and confidentiality of communications between sensors and distant terminals, after having established mutual authentication between the two parties. In order to achieve these security goals without putting too much burden on sensing devices, Tiny 3-TLS rely on an intermediate node, the sink node. Depending on the trustworthiness of this sink node and on the applications, we propose two versions of our proposition. Besides, we provide a formal validation of the protocol's security goals achievement and an evaluation of its computation and delay performances.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSecurity and Privacy in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks - Third European Workshop, ESAS 2006, Revised Selected Papers
Pages32-42
Number of pages11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, ESAS 2006 - Hamburg, Germany
Duration: 20 Sept 200621 Sept 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4357 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, ESAS 2006
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHamburg
Period20/09/0621/09/06

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