On Efficient Data Integrity and Data Origin Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks Utilising Block Cipher Design Techniques

Author

Adekunle, A.A. ; Woodhead, S.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Univ. of Greenwich, Chatham, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

419

Lastpage

424

Abstract

Analysis of the generic attacks and countermeasures for block cipher based message authentication code algorithms (MAC) in sensor applications is undertaken; the conclusions are used in the design of two new MAC constructs quicker block chaining MAC1 (QBC-MAC1) and quicker block chaining MAC2 (QBC-MAC2). Using software simulation we show that our new constructs point to improvements in usage of CPU instruction clock cycle and energy requirement when benchmarked against the de facto cipher block chaining MAC (CBC-MAC) based construct used in the TinySec security protocol for wireless sensor networks.

Keywords

block codes; cryptographic protocols; data integrity; message authentication; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; CBC-MAC algorithm; CPU instruction clock cycle; QBC-MAC1 algorithm; QBC-MAC2 algorithm; TinySec security protocol; block cipher design technique; block cipher-based message authentication code algorithm; cipher block chaining MAC algorithm; data integrity; data origin authentication; energy requirements; quicker block chaining MAC1 algorithm; quicker block chaining MAC2 algorithm; software simulation; wireless sensor network; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Cryptographic protocols; Data security; Forgery; Media Access Protocol; Message authentication; Mobile computing; Next generation networking; Wireless sensor networks; Message authentication code; Skipjack; data integrity; data origin authentication; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2009. NGMAST '09. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cardiff, Wales

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3786-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NGMAST.2009.78

Filename

5337392