Abstract
A wide spectrum of security challenges were arose by Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) architectures and common security techniques used in traditional networks are impractical. In particular, being the sensor nodes often deployed in unattended areas, physical attacks are possible and have to be taken into account during the architecture design. Whenever an attacker enters in possession of a node, he/she can jeopardize the network by extracting cryptographic keys used for secure communication. Moreover, an attacker can also try to brute force the keys, hence they should be fully random and hard to guess. In this paper, we propose a novel solution based on generating keys from unique physical characteristics of a node integrated circuit without requiring additional hardware compared to common WSN node architectures. To this aim, we exploit the Static Random Access Memory based Physically Unclonable Functions and we show their applicability to the WSN by implementing a working prototype based on the STM32F4 microcontroller.
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The Reed-Muller ECC has a (128,8,63) configuration, which has probability error of 4.321086e-09.
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The device goes into standby mode to power down the SRAM, before rebooting.
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The list of Authors is in alphabetical order. The corresponding authors are Mario Barbareschi and Ermanno Battista. This research work was partially supported by CeRICT for the project NEMBO—PONPE_00159.
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Amelino, D., Barbareschi, M., Battista, E., Mazzeo, A. (2016). How to Manage Keys and Reconfiguration in WSNs Exploiting SRAM Based PUFs. In: Pietro, G., Gallo, L., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39345-2_10
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