The Public Key Encryption to Improve the Security on Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Xu, Chungen ; Ge, Yanhong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Math., Nanjing Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2009

fDate

21-22 May 2009

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

14

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) grows and gains new in our lives. However security in WSN was not carefully carried out, since only some symmetric encryption based protocols are proposed in literature, under the assumption that the nature of sensor nodes does not support public key encryption due to the limitation in battery and CPU power. This paper present a scheme of Public Key Infrastructure(PKI) for wireless sensor networks. The scheme tries to solve the problem of security in WSN by the use of public key cryptography as a tool for ensuring the authenticity of the base station, and propose a RSApsilas implementation of Public Key Encryption to improve the security on wireless sensor networks.

Keywords

public key cryptography; wireless sensor networks; public key cryptography; public key encryption; public key infrastructure; wireless sensor networks; Base stations; Information security; Military computing; Protocols; Public key; Public key cryptography; Sensor systems and applications; Surveillance; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks; PKI; Public key encryption; RSA; WSN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Computing Science, 2009. ICIC '09. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3634-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIC.2009.10

Filename

5169527