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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jicce.2010.8.5.549

Practical Attacks on Hybrid Group Key Management for SOHAN

Liew, Jiun-Hau (Graduate School Design and IT of Dongseo University)
Ong, Ivy (Graduate School of Design and IT in Dongseo University)
Lee, Sang-Gon (Division of Computer & Information Engineering, Dongseo University)
Lim, Hyo-Taek (Division of Computer and Information Engineering)
Lee, Hoon-Jae (School of Computer and Information Engineering at Dongseo University.)

Publication Information

Journal of information and communication convergence engineering / v.8, no.5, 2010 , pp. 549-553 More about this Journal

Abstract

Lim et al. proposed a Hybrid Group Key Management scheme for Hierarchical Self-Organizing Sensor Network in 2008 to provide a secure way to pass down the group key for cluster-based communication. This paper presents two practical attacks on the scheme proposed by Lim et al. by tampering sensor nodes of a cluster to recover necessary secret keys and by exploiting the IDS employed by the scheme. The first attack enables a long-term but slow data fabrication while other attack causes more severe DoS on the access to cluster sensor nodes.

Keywords

Data Fabrication; Denial of Service; Hybrid Group Key Management; Wireless Sensor Network;

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