Mobile components security

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Abstract

Secure communications among mobile components, like wireless sensors and RFID tags, emerge as a fundamental branch of network security, needing message confidentiality, integrity and authentication. That is: protecting the content of transmitted information, assuring that it was not altered during transmission, and proving that it was sent by an approved identified source. Object integrity is another very relevant security application. Here, the purpose is to prove that an object, having storage and transmission facilities, is not cloned. We treat the hardware implementation of security measures in mobile components while considering two major issues: Resource constraints: Such components operate under highly constrained conditions, posing a demand for minimal logic hardware while providing for approved and recognized security level. Memory security: Wireless Sensors and RFID tags are deployed in hostile environments, enhancing a need for tamper-proof storage of their secret keys. The contribution of the paper is 3-fold: - We present a novel approach to hardware minimization, serving message security while relying on approved security levels,- We show that memory security is not merely a physical problem, apparently independent of the served applications. This observation can be made general. Attention is devoted to recently announced logic gates fabrication techniques, and their relation to the devised approach, as well as their potential contribution to general security applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCSIIRW'08 - 4th Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop
Subtitle of host publicationDeveloping Strategies to Meet the Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Challenges Ahead
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event4th Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop: Developing Strategies to Meet the Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Challenges Ahead, CSIIRW'08 - Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Duration: 12 May 200814 May 2008

Publication series

NameCSIIRW'08 - 4th Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop: Developing Strategies to Meet the Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Challenges Ahead

Conference

Conference4th Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop: Developing Strategies to Meet the Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Challenges Ahead, CSIIRW'08
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOak Ridge, TN
Period12/05/0814/05/08

Keywords

  • DNA computing
  • Memory tampering
  • Mobile components
  • Security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software

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