SHORT ECC - A Lightweight Security Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks

Anna Sojka, Krzysztof Piotrowski, Peter Langendoerfer

2010

Abstract

This paper presents our ongoing work towards a new lightweight security approach for Wireless Sensor Networks. Applying several changes in the standard Elliptic Curve Cryptography parameter sets and algorithms we get a public/secret key hybrid with a reasonable security level and much shorter key sizes. Here we present the main idea, the algorithms together with the initial security analysis and the directions for the future research.

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in Harvard Style

Sojka A., Piotrowski K. and Langendoerfer P. (2010). SHORT ECC - A Lightweight Security Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-18-8, pages 304-308. DOI: 10.5220/0002983003040308


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt10,
author={Anna Sojka and Krzysztof Piotrowski and Peter Langendoerfer},
title={SHORT ECC - A Lightweight Security Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={304-308},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002983003040308},
isbn={978-989-8425-18-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2010)
TI - SHORT ECC - A Lightweight Security Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks
SN - 978-989-8425-18-8
AU - Sojka A.
AU - Piotrowski K.
AU - Langendoerfer P.
PY - 2010
SP - 304
EP - 308
DO - 10.5220/0002983003040308