On the formal verification of the SNEP key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks

Y. Li, T. Newe

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Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are expected to play an essential role in the age of pervasive computing. Wide deployments of mission-critical WSNs create concerns about security issues. Security of large scale densely deployed and infrastructure-less wireless networks of resource limited sensor nodes requires efficient key distribution protocols. Perring et al. developed SNEP capable of providing several security services, such as data confidentiality, data authentication, and data freshness. In order to provide assurance that these protocols are verifiable secure and trustworthy it is necessary to perform a formal verification on their design specification. The formal logic of Coffey-Saidha-Newe (CSN) combines the logic of belief and knowledge to evaluate trust and security of communication protocols. In this paper the SNEP key agreement protocol is discussed. A formal verification of SNEP key agreement using the CSN modal logic is presented. Some additional axioms relating to MAC authentication are also presented and used to simplify the verification of protocols that involve MAC authentication.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2007 International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications SENSORCOMM 2007, Proceedings
Pages186-191
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event2007 International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2007 - Valencia, Spain
Duration: 14 Oct 200720 Oct 2007

Publication series

Name2007 International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2007, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2007 International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2007
Country/TerritorySpain
CityValencia
Period14/10/0720/10/07

Keywords

  • Formal methods
  • Key agreement
  • Modal logic
  • SNEP
  • Verification
  • WSNs

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