Noncommutative Lightweight Signcryption for Wireless Sensor Networks

Key management techniques for secure wireless-sensor-networks-based applications must minimally incorporate confidentiality, authenticity, integrity, scalability, and flexibility. Signcryption is the proper primitive to do this. However, existing signcryption schemes are heavyweight and not suitable...

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Main Authors: Lize Gu, Yun Pan, Mianxiong Dong, Kaoru Ota
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-03-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/818917
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Summary:Key management techniques for secure wireless-sensor-networks-based applications must minimally incorporate confidentiality, authenticity, integrity, scalability, and flexibility. Signcryption is the proper primitive to do this. However, existing signcryption schemes are heavyweight and not suitable for resource-limited sensors. In this paper, we at first propose a braid-based signcryption scheme and then develop a key establishment protocol for wireless sensor networks. From the complexity view, our proposal is 2 15 times faster than RSA-based ones. As far as we know, our proposal is the first signcryption scheme based on noncommutative algebraic structures.
ISSN:1550-1477