MOBILE SECRET KEY DISTRIBUTION WITH NETWORK CODING

Paulo F. Oliveira, Rui A. Costa, João Barros

2007

Abstract

We consider the problem of secret key distribution in a sensor network with multiple scattered sensor nodes and a mobile device that can be used to bootstrap the network. Our main contribution is a practical scheme that relies on network coding to provide a robust and low-complexity solution for sharing secret keys among sensor nodes. In spite of its role as a key enabler for this approach, the mobile node only has access to encrypted version of the keys. In contrast with probabilistic key pre-distribution schemes our method assures secure connectivity with probability one, requiring only a modest amount of memory — initially each sensor node stores only one key per secured link.

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in Harvard Style

F. Oliveira P., A. Costa R. and Barros J. (2007). MOBILE SECRET KEY DISTRIBUTION WITH NETWORK CODING . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-12-8, pages 171-174. DOI: 10.5220/0002126801710174


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt07,
author={Paulo F. Oliveira and Rui A. Costa and João Barros},
title={MOBILE SECRET KEY DISTRIBUTION WITH NETWORK CODING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={171-174},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002126801710174},
isbn={978-989-8111-12-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007)
TI - MOBILE SECRET KEY DISTRIBUTION WITH NETWORK CODING
SN - 978-989-8111-12-8
AU - F. Oliveira P.
AU - A. Costa R.
AU - Barros J.
PY - 2007
SP - 171
EP - 174
DO - 10.5220/0002126801710174