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Exploring Symmetric Cryptography for Secure Network Reprogramming

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Exploring Symmetric Cryptography for Secure Network Reprogramming
Recent secure code-update protocols for sensor networks have been based on asymmetric-crypto primitives such as digital signatures. Our approach, Castor, explores the feasibility of securing an existing code-update protocol, Deluge, using symmetric-crypto mechanisms that are more suited to the resource constraints of sensor nodes. Castor involves a synergistic combination of a one-way hash-chain, a one-way key-chain, and a sequence of MACs with delayed key-disclosure to enable sensor nodes to verify the update’s authenticity. We guarantee that no correct node will ever install or forward a compromised part of an update, while addressing the performance issues related to delayed keydisclosure.
Donnie H. Kim, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ICDCSW
Authors Donnie H. Kim, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan
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