TY - GEN
T1 - Authenticated encryption in WSN using eSTREAM ciphers
AU - Ahmad, Shakil
AU - Wahla, Arif
AU - Kausar, Firdous
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Wireless Sensor Networks are gaining popularity due their wide spread application areas especially military, biomedical and cooperate sectors. Secure and authentic data exchange for sensitive and critical applications is a basic need. European Union's project eSTREAM ciphers have identified set of software implement-able stream ciphers with efficiency and security comparable to AES. Integration of an authentication mechanism with these software implement able stream ciphers remained an open challenge. Situation is further aggravated once target application platform is resource constrained in terms of energy, processing power and memory as in the case of WSNs. In this research work we have analyzed known authenticated encryption mechanisms using eSTREAM ciphers and their implementation in resource limited WSN environment.
AB - Wireless Sensor Networks are gaining popularity due their wide spread application areas especially military, biomedical and cooperate sectors. Secure and authentic data exchange for sensitive and critical applications is a basic need. European Union's project eSTREAM ciphers have identified set of software implement-able stream ciphers with efficiency and security comparable to AES. Integration of an authentication mechanism with these software implement able stream ciphers remained an open challenge. Situation is further aggravated once target application platform is resource constrained in terms of energy, processing power and memory as in the case of WSNs. In this research work we have analyzed known authenticated encryption mechanisms using eSTREAM ciphers and their implementation in resource limited WSN environment.
KW - Authenticated Encryption
KW - Security
KW - Stream Ciphers
KW - Wireless Sensor Networks
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-02617-1_75
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-02617-1_75
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70350675422
SN - 3642026168
SN - 9783642026164
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 741
EP - 749
BT - Advances in Information Security and Assurance - Third International Conference and Workshops, ISA 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Information Security and Assurance, ISA 2009
Y2 - 25 June 2009 through 27 June 2009
ER -