Towards Secure and Practical MACs for Body Sensor Networks

Zheng Gong; Pieter Hartel; Svetla Nikova; Bo Zhu

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10628-6_13

Towards Secure and Practical MACs for Body Sensor Networks

Zheng Gong, Pieter Hartel, Svetla Nikova, Bo Zhu

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Abstract

In this paper, some practical problems with the Message Authentication Codes (MACs), which are suggested in the current security architectures for wireless sensor network (WSN), are reconsidered. The analysis exploits the fact that the recommended MACs for WSN, e.g., TinySec (CBC-MAC), MiniSec (OCB-MAC), and SenSec (XCBC-MAC), are not exactly suitable for body sensor network (BSN). Particularly a dedicated attack is elaborated on the XCBC-MAC. Considering the hardware limitations of BSN, we propose a tunable lightweight MAC based on the PRESENT block cipher, which is named \textsf{TuLP}. A 128-bit variant \textsf{TuLP-128} is proposed for a higher resistance against internal collisions. Compared to the existing schemes, our lightweight MACs are time and resource efficient on hardware-constrained devices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2009
Subtitle of host publication	10th International Conference on Cryptology in India, New Delhi, India, December 13-16, 2009, Proceedings
Editors	Bimal Roy, Nicolas Sendrier
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer
Pages	182-198
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-642-10628-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-10627-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10628-6_13
Publication status	Published - 4 Dec 2009
Event	10th International Conference on Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2009 - New Delhi, India Duration: 13 Dec 2009 → 16 Dec 2009

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	5922
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	10th International Conference on Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2009
Period	13/12/09 → 16/12/09
Other	December 13-16, 2009

Keywords

Low-resource implementation
Body sensor network
SCS-Cybersecurity
Message authentication code

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Gong, Z., Hartel, P., Nikova, S., & Zhu, B. (2009). Towards Secure and Practical MACs for Body Sensor Networks. In B. Roy, & N. Sendrier (Eds.), Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2009: 10th International Conference on Cryptology in India, New Delhi, India, December 13-16, 2009, Proceedings (pp. 182-198). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5922). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10628-6_13

Gong, Zheng ; Hartel, Pieter ; Nikova, Svetla et al. / Towards Secure and Practical MACs for Body Sensor Networks. Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2009: 10th International Conference on Cryptology in India, New Delhi, India, December 13-16, 2009, Proceedings. editor / Bimal Roy ; Nicolas Sendrier. Berlin : Springer, 2009. pp. 182-198 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Gong, Z, Hartel, P, Nikova, S & Zhu, B 2009, Towards Secure and Practical MACs for Body Sensor Networks. in B Roy & N Sendrier (eds), Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2009: 10th International Conference on Cryptology in India, New Delhi, India, December 13-16, 2009, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5922, Springer, Berlin, pp. 182-198, 10th International Conference on Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2009, 13/12/09. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10628-6_13

Towards Secure and Practical MACs for Body Sensor Networks. / Gong, Zheng; Hartel, Pieter; Nikova, Svetla et al.
Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2009: 10th International Conference on Cryptology in India, New Delhi, India, December 13-16, 2009, Proceedings. ed. / Bimal Roy; Nicolas Sendrier. Berlin: Springer, 2009. p. 182-198 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5922).

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Gong Z, Hartel P, Nikova S, Zhu B. Towards Secure and Practical MACs for Body Sensor Networks. In Roy B, Sendrier N, editors, Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2009: 10th International Conference on Cryptology in India, New Delhi, India, December 13-16, 2009, Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. 2009. p. 182-198. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-10628-6_13

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