Title :
ZigBee/ZigBee PRO Security Assessment Based on Compromised Cryptographic Keys
Author :
Radmand, Pedram ; Domingo, Marc ; Singh, Jaipal ; Arnedo, Joan ; Talevski, Alex ; Petersen, Stig ; Carlsen, Simon
Author_Institution :
Digital Ecosyst. & Bus. Intell. Inst., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia
Abstract :
Sensor networks have many applications in monitoring and controlling of environmental properties such as sound, acceleration, vibration and temperature. Due to limited resources in computation capability, memory and energy, they are vulnerable to many kinds of attacks. The ZigBee specification, based on the 802.15.4 standard, defines a set of layers specifically suited to sensor networks. These layers support secure messaging using symmetric cryptographic. This paper presents two different ways for grabbing the cryptographic key in ZigBee: remote attack and physical attack. It also surveys and categorizes some additional attacks which can be performed on ZigBee networks: eavesdropping, spoofing, replay and DoS attacks at different layers. From this analysis, it is shown that some vulnerabilities still in the existing security schema in ZigBee technology.
Keywords :
Zigbee; computer network security; cryptography; 802.15.4 standard; DoS attacks; ZigBee PRO security assessment; ZigBee networks; ZigBee specification; compromised cryptographic keys; computation capability; environmental properties; physical attack; remote attack; secure messaging; sensor networks; symmetric cryptographic;
Conference_Titel :
P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fukuoka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8538-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4237-9
DOI :
10.1109/3PGCIC.2010.79