Abstract
In distributed environments, such as wireless networks, a common adversary is considered to take control over a fraction of the nodes and hence to affect the system behaviour. We have examined several key management schemes for wireless sensor networks where the adversary compromises all the secret keys stored on captured nodes. We propose a number of realistic movement strategies that an actual attacker could pursue to capture nodes and examine the fallout of these attack approaches.
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This work was supported by the GAP202/11/0422 project of the Czech Science Foundation. We are also grateful for helpful discussions and notes provided by our colleagues Petr Švenda, Dušan Klinec, Jiří Kůr, and by participants of the Security Protocols Workshop 2014, particularly Daniel Thomas and Virgil Gligor.
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Jurnečka, F., Stehlík, M., Matyáš, V. (2014). On Node Capturing Attacker Strategies. In: Christianson, B., Malcolm, J., Matyáš, V., Švenda, P., Stajano, F., Anderson, J. (eds) Security Protocols XXII. Security Protocols 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8809. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12400-1_29
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