TinyPK: securing sensor networks with public key technology

By Ronald J. Watro, D. Kong, Sue-fen Cuti, Charles Gardiner, C. Lynn, Peter Kruus. ACM Workshop on Security of ad hoc and Sensor Networks, 2004

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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NanoECC: Testing the Limits of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Sensor Networks (2008, methodology): “This fact has motivated work on how to compute PKC efficiently in sensor nodes (e.g., [ 7 ,8,9,10]).”
A Secured Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Elliptic Curves Cryptography (2011, methodology): “Watro et al. [10] proposed a complex mathematical method for user authentication employing RSA and Diffie-Hellman algorithms to calculate an encrypted public key (TinyPK authentication), but this protocol is open to hostile attack by a user masquerading as a sensor node (spoofing).”
Two-factor user authentication in wireless sensor networks (2009, methodology): “Watro et al’s [7] tpu + tpr tpr 2tpr + th - 2tpu + th”
Securing wireless sensor networks: a survey (2008, methodology): “Applications — In addition to RSA for authentication and Diffie-Hellman for key establishment [63], ECC also is attracting interest for the security design of WSNs due to its efficiency.”
Cryptanalysis and Security Improvements of ‘Two-Factor User Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks’ (2010, methodology): “proposed a TinyPK authentication protocol with public key cryptography that uses RSA and Diffie-Hellman algorithms [5], however, this protocol suffers from masquerade sensor node attack, in which an adversary can spoof the user.”
A survey of security issues in wireless sensor networks (2006, methodology): “Two modules, TinyPK [ 43 ], based on RSA, and TinyECC [44], based on ECC, have been designed and implemented on Mica2 motes using the TinyOS development environment.”
Wireless Sensor Network (2020, positive): “The phase starts with execution of TinyPK [28] protocol to include each sensor node in the existing network.”
Wireless sensor network key management survey and taxonomy (2010, background): “Watro et al. (2004) described the TinyPK: securing sensor networks with public key technology.”
DTLS based security and two-way authentication for the Internet of Things (2013, background): “Because it is today’s dominant PKC system [17] a suitable infrastructure for obtaining certificates from commercial Certificate Authorities (CA) is already in place.”
Security issues in SCADA networks (2006, methodology): “Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have similar operating constraints, and techniques have been developed to implement cryptography in those applications (Watro et al., 2004).”
Wireless Sensor Network Security: A Survey (2006, background): “This is true in the general case, however, [21], [25], [49], [81] show that it is feasible with the right selection of algorithms.”
A novel user authentication and key agreement scheme for heterogeneous ad hoc wireless sensor networks, based on the Internet of Things notion (2014, neutral): “In 2004, Watro et al. [33] proposed a highly-cited, user authentication scheme based on asymmetric cryptography, called TinyPK.”
Reputation-based framework for high integrity sensor networks (2004, background): “The testimonies to this are some recent works in literature that study the impact of malicious attacks on these networks [1, 2, 3]. There have been several proposals, all based on cryptography, to ensure secure communication on these resource constrained nodes such as SPINS[4], TinySec[5], INSENS[6]”