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Authenticated Encryption in WSN Using eSTREAM Ciphers

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Advances in Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009)

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Wireless Sensor Networks are gaining popularity due their wide spread application areas especially military, biomedical and cooperate sectors. Secure and authentic data exchange for sensitive and critical applications is a basic need. European Union’s project eSTREAM ciphers have identified set of software implement-able stream ciphers with efficiency and security comparable to AES. Integration of an authentication mechanism with these software implement able stream ciphers remained an open challenge. Situation is further aggravated once target application platform is resource constrained in terms of energy, processing power and memory as in the case of WSNs. In this research work we have analyzed known authenticated encryption mechanisms using eSTREAM ciphers and their implementation in resource limited WSN environment.

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  1. Department of Information Security, University of Science and Technology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

    Shakil Ahmad, Arif Wahla & Firdous Kausar

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, Kyungnam University, 449, Wolyong-dong, 631-701, Kyungnam, Masan, Korea

    Jong Hyuk Park

  2. Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

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  3. School of Computer Science,, University of Oklahoma, 200 Felgar Street, 73019, P.O. Box, Norman, OK, USA

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  4. School of Computer Engineering, Hanshin University, Kyeong-Gi, Osan, Korea

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  5. Division of Multimedia, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea

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Ahmad, S., Wahla, A., Kausar, F. (2009). Authenticated Encryption in WSN Using eSTREAM Ciphers. In: Park, J.H., Chen, HH., Atiquzzaman, M., Lee, C., Kim, Th., Yeo, SS. (eds) Advances in Information Security and Assurance. ISA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5576. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02617-1_75

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