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The Resurrecting Duckling: Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
Frank Stajano,Frank Stajano,Ross Anderson +2 more
- pp 172-194
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A resurrecting duckling security policy model is presented, which describes secure transient association of a device with multiple serialised owners over the air in a short range wireless channel.Abstract:
In the near future, many personal electronic devices will be able to communicate with each other over a short range wireless channel. We investigate the principal security issues for such an environment. Our discussion is based on the concrete example of a thermometer that makes its readings available to other nodes over the air. Some lessons learned from this example appear to be quite general to ad-hoc networks, and rather different from what we have come to expect in more conventional systems: denial of service, the goals of authentication, and the problems of naming all need re-examination. We present the resurrecting duckling security policy model, which describes secure transient association of a device with multiple serialised owners.read more
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Managing associations in ad hoc networks
TL;DR: In this paper, a first wireless device establishes an association with a second wireless device by sending a connection request packet to a previously-discovered second wireless devices and the second device identifies the received packet as connection request and responds with a connection response packet.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
Performance evaluation of encryption algorithm for wireless sensor networks
TL;DR: Three encryption algorithms, AES, RC5 and RC6, are studied and measured and compared on Mica2 sensor motes to provide insight into the suitability of different security algorithms for use in WSN environments and could be used by WSN designers to construct the security architecture of their systems in a way that both satisfies the requirements of the application and reasonably uses the constrained sensor resources.
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The Implications of Pervasive Computing on Network Design
TL;DR: The impact that computing devices will have on how the authors design networking is concerns, and the pressure points where pervasive computing will push current approaches to their limits are identified.
Reducing the trusted computing base for applications on commodity systems
TL;DR: A mechanism called Seeing-is-Believing is proposed to allow the computer's owner to authenticate the physical identity of her computer, in addition to its digital identity represented in the attestation, to reduce the need for trusted third parties that are unavailable today.
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New Directions in Cryptography
TL;DR: This paper suggests ways to solve currently open problems in cryptography, and discusses how the theories of communication and computation are beginning to provide the tools to solve cryptographic problems of long standing.
Integrity Considerations for Secure Computer Systems
TL;DR: The author identifies the integrity problems posed by a secure military computer utility and integrity policies addressing these problems are developed and their effectiveness evaluated.
Tamper resistance: a cautionary note
Ross Anderson,Markus G. Kuhn +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that trusting tamper resistance is problematic; smartcards are broken routinely, and even a device that was described by a government signals agency as 'the most secure processor generally available' turns out to be vulnerable.
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Low Cost Attacks on Tamper Resistant Devices
Ross Anderson,Markus G. Kuhn +1 more
TL;DR: A number of attacks that can be mounted by opponents with much shallower pockets, such as smart-cards, are described.
Journal Article
Low cost attacks on tamper resistant devices
Ross Anderson,Markus G. Kuhn +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a number of attacks that can be mounted by opponents with much shallower pockets, three of them involve special (but low cost) equipment: differential fault analysis, chip rewriting, and memory remanence.