A Review on Implementation of Message Authentication Scheme for Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks (original) (raw)
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IJERT-Message Authentication And Source Privacy using ECC in WSN
International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2014
https://www.ijert.org/message-authentication-and-source-privacy-using-ecc-in-wsn https://www.ijert.org/research/message-authentication-and-source-privacy-using-ecc-in-wsn-IJERTV3IS031125.pdf In order to thwart unauthorised and corrupted messages from being forwarded in wireless sensor networks (WSN) we can make use of message authentication which is very effective way. In this regard many symmetric and public key cryptographic systems have been developed which suffered in their own limitations. Recently developed polynomial-based scheme also reported the limitation in its threshold value, as number of messages to be transferred should not cross the threshold limit. In this paper we propose a scalable authentication scheme based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).Here our scheme enables intermediate nodes authentication and does not suffer with any threshold limit problem also provide message source privacy.