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Citation
Adrian Perrig, Mark Luk, Cynthia Kuo. "Message-In-a-Bottle: User-Friendly and Secure Key Deployment for Sensor Nodes". Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor System (SenSys 2007), October, 2007.

Abstract
Existing protocols for secure key establishment all rely on an unspecified mechanism for initially deploying secrets to sensor nodes. However, no commercially viable and secure mechanism exists for initial setup. Without a guarantee of secure key deployment, the traffic over a sensor network cannot be presumed secure. To address this problem, we present a user-friendly protocol for the secure deployment of cryptographic keys in sensor networks. We propose a collection of five techniques to prevent an attacker from eavesdropping on key deployment. To demonstrate feasibility for real-world use, we implement our protocol on Telos motes and conduct a user study.

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  Adrian Perrig, Mark Luk, Cynthia Kuo. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/284.html"
  >Message-In-a-Bottle: User-Friendly and Secure Key
  Deployment for Sensor Nodes</a>, Proceedings of the
  ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor System (SenSys
  2007), October, 2007.

• Plain text

  Adrian Perrig, Mark Luk, Cynthia Kuo.
  "Message-In-a-Bottle: User-Friendly and Secure Key
  Deployment for Sensor Nodes". Proceedings of the ACM
  Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor System (SenSys
  2007), October, 2007.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{PerrigLukKuo07_MessageInaBottleUserFriendlySecureKeyDeployment,
      author = {Adrian Perrig and Mark Luk and Cynthia Kuo},
      title = {Message-In-a-Bottle: User-Friendly and Secure Key
                Deployment for Sensor Nodes},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded
                Networked Sensor System (SenSys 2007)},
      month = {October},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Existing protocols for secure key establishment
                all rely on an unspecified mechanism for initially
                deploying secrets to sensor nodes. However, no
                commercially viable and secure mechanism exists
                for initial setup. Without a guarantee of secure
                key deployment, the traffic over a sensor network
                cannot be presumed secure. To address this
                problem, we present a user-friendly protocol for
                the secure deployment of cryptographic keys in
                sensor networks. We propose a collection of five
                techniques to prevent an attacker from
                eavesdropping on key deployment. To demonstrate
                feasibility for real-world use, we implement our
                protocol on Telos motes and conduct a user study. },
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/284.html}
  }
  

Posted by Adrian Perrig on 10 Sep 2007.
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