A Lightweight White-Box Symmetric Encryption Algorithm against Node Capture for WSNs

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are often deployed in hostile environments and, thus, nodes can be potentially captured by an adversary. This is a typical white-box attack context, i.e., the adversary may have total visibility of the implementation of the build-in cryptosystem and full control over...

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Vydáno v:	Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Ročník 15; číslo 5; s. 11928 - 11952
Hlavní autoři:	Shi, Yang, Wei, Wujing, He, Zongjian
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Switzerland MDPI AG 21.05.2015 MDPI
Témata:	Algorithms Encryption Lightweight Mathematical models node capture Remote sensors Security Sensors Software symmetric encryption algorithms Weight reduction white-box attack contexts Wireless networks wireless sensor networks symmetric encryption algorithms white-box attack contexts wireless sensor networks node capture
ISSN:	1424-8220, 1424-8220
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Shrnutí:	Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are often deployed in hostile environments and, thus, nodes can be potentially captured by an adversary. This is a typical white-box attack context, i.e., the adversary may have total visibility of the implementation of the build-in cryptosystem and full control over its execution platform. Handling white-box attacks in a WSN scenario is a challenging task. Existing encryption algorithms for white-box attack contexts require large memory footprint and, hence, are not applicable for wireless sensor networks scenarios. As a countermeasure against the threat in this context, in this paper, we propose a class of lightweight secure implementations of the symmetric encryption algorithm SMS4. The basic idea of our approach is to merge several steps of the round function of SMS4 into table lookups, blended by randomly generated mixing bijections. Therefore, the size of the implementations are significantly reduced while keeping the same security efficiency. The security and efficiency of the proposed solutions are theoretically analyzed. Evaluation shows our solutions satisfy the requirement of sensor nodes in terms of limited memory size and low computational costs.
Bibliografie:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 This paper is an extended version of the paper entitled “A Lightweight White-box Symmetric Encryption Algorithm against Node Capture for WSNs”, presented at IEEE WCNC 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, 6–9 April 2014.
ISSN:	1424-8220 1424-8220
DOI:	10.3390/s150511928