A lightweight PUF-based secure group key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained considerable popularity in a wide range of applications such as military, healthcare, transportations, and environmental sensing. Data produced in these applications is highly sensitive and requires a high level of security protection. However, individual...
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| author | Zheng, Yue Liu, Wenye Chang, Chip Hong |
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| description | Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained considerable popularity in a wide range of applications such as military, healthcare, transportations, and environmental sensing. Data produced in these applications is highly sensitive and requires a high level of security protection. However, individual nodes in WSNs are typically resource constrained and have limited computing power to protect memory stored secrets, which are vulnerable to tampering and physical probing. As group messaging is commonly used in WSNs for efficient message exchanges among sensor nodes, this paper presents a lightweight secure group key agreement protocol using Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) as a hardware root of trust. The proposed scheme establishes secure group authentication and group session key simultaneously for all participating members of the group without resorting to complex public-key algorithms. By hiding the prover's authentication secrets in a secure mask, the verifier does not have to store the secrets but recover them for authentication by querying its PUF. The proposed protocol enables lightweight cluster head authentication at the sensor node and prevents stolen-verifier attack at the cluster head. Besides, it is robust against memory probing attacks at all group devices and man-in-the-middle attacks on the communication channel. Among existing PUF-based group key establishment protocols, it requires zero secret storage cost and exhibits excellent overall computation and communication performance. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1741432024-03-22T15:39:50Z A lightweight PUF-based secure group key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks Zheng, Yue Liu, Wenye Chang, Chip Hong School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Engineering Performance evaluation Wireless sensor networks Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained considerable popularity in a wide range of applications such as military, healthcare, transportations, and environmental sensing. Data produced in these applications is highly sensitive and requires a high level of security protection. However, individual nodes in WSNs are typically resource constrained and have limited computing power to protect memory stored secrets, which are vulnerable to tampering and physical probing. As group messaging is commonly used in WSNs for efficient message exchanges among sensor nodes, this paper presents a lightweight secure group key agreement protocol using Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) as a hardware root of trust. The proposed scheme establishes secure group authentication and group session key simultaneously for all participating members of the group without resorting to complex public-key algorithms. By hiding the prover's authentication secrets in a secure mask, the verifier does not have to store the secrets but recover them for authentication by querying its PUF. The proposed protocol enables lightweight cluster head authentication at the sensor node and prevents stolen-verifier attack at the cluster head. Besides, it is robust against memory probing attacks at all group devices and man-in-the-middle attacks on the communication channel. Among existing PUF-based group key establishment protocols, it requires zero secret storage cost and exhibits excellent overall computation and communication performance. Ministry of Education (MOE) Submitted/Accepted version This research is supported by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, under its AcRF Tier 2 Award No MOET2EP50220- 0003. 2024-03-18T06:32:07Z 2024-03-18T06:32:07Z 2023 Conference Paper Zheng, Y., Liu, W. & Chang, C. H. (2023). A lightweight PUF-based secure group key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS46773.2023.10181666 9781665451093 2158-1525 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174143 10.1109/ISCAS46773.2023.10181666 2-s2.0-85167695926 en MOET2EP50220- 0003 © 2023 IEEE. All rights reserved. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the copyright holder. The Version of Record is available online at http://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS46773.2023.10181666. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Engineering Performance evaluation Wireless sensor networks Zheng, Yue Liu, Wenye Chang, Chip Hong A lightweight PUF-based secure group key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks |
| title | A lightweight PUF-based secure group key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks |
| title_full | A lightweight PUF-based secure group key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks |
| title_fullStr | A lightweight PUF-based secure group key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | A lightweight PUF-based secure group key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks |
| title_short | A lightweight PUF-based secure group key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks |
| title_sort | lightweight puf based secure group key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks |
| topic | Engineering Performance evaluation Wireless sensor networks |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174143 |
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