Metamorphic Framework for Key Management and Authentication in Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks

Raghav V. Sampangi ； Srinivas Sampalli

《International Journal of Network Security》 19卷3期 (2017/05) Pp. 430-442

https://doi.org/10.6633/IJNS.201703.19(3).12

摘要

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) has prioritized development in unique identification and sensing technologies, which facilitate IoT's automated and intelligent vision. Data security is critical to the success of such applications, more so with the communication over a wireless channel. However, IoT devices are resource limited and lack the ability to perform sophisticated computations without impacting their longevity requirements, or increasing the cost. This encourages creation of `lightweight' security solutions for such low resource devices. We propose a new reconfigurable (or, metamorphic) framework for key management and authentication in this paper. Our framework deploys multiple lightweight algorithms and chooses one of them for each message exchange. We evaluate our work using assessment of key sequences, hardware resource utilization assessment and security analysis.

關鍵字

Authentication ； key management ； reconfigurable security framework ； resource-constrained wireless networks