scholarly journals Securing Cryptographic Chips against Scan-Based Attacks in Wireless Sensor Network Applications

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (20) ◽  
pp. 4598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang ◽  
Deng ◽  
Wang ◽  
Sangaiah ◽  
Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Mode Switching ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Scan Design ◽  
Test Quality ◽  
High Data ◽  
Normal Test

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have deeply influenced the working and living styles of human beings. Information security and privacy for WSN is particularly crucial. Cryptographic algorithms are extensively exploited in WSN applications to ensure the security. They are usually implemented in specific chips to achieve high data throughout with less computational resources. Cryptographic hardware should be rigidly tested to guarantee the correctness of encryption operation. Scan design improves significantly the test quality of chips and thus is widely used in semiconductor industry. Nevertheless, scan design provides a backdoor for attackers to deduce the cipher key of a cryptographic core. To protect the security of the cryptographic system we first present a secure scan architecture, in which an automatic test control circuitry is inserted to isolate the cipher key in test mode and clear the sensitive information at mode switching. Then, the weaknesses of this architecture are analyzed and an enhanced scheme using concept of test authorization is proposed. If the correct authorization key is applied within the specific time, the normal test can be performed. Otherwise, only secure scan test can be performed. The enhanced scan scheme ensures the security of cryptographic chips while remaining the advantages of scan design.

scholarly journals Preventing Scan-Based Side-Channel Attacks by Scan Obfuscating with a Configurable Shift Register

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Weizheng Wang ◽  
Yin Chen ◽  
Shuo Cai ◽  
Yan Peng
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
Nonvolatile Memory ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Side Channel ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Scan Design ◽  
Test Quality ◽  
Side Channel Attacks ◽  
Scan Test ◽  
Test Operation

Scan test is widely used in integrated circuit test. However, the excellent observability and controllability provided by the scan test gives attackers an opportunity to obtain sensitive information by using scan design to threaten circuit security. Hence, the primary motivation of this paper is to improve the existing DFT technique, i.e., to enhance the chip security on the premise of guaranteeing test quality. In this paper, we propose a new scan design method against scan-based side-channel attack. In the proposed method, the encryption structure is adopted, which requires the correct test authorization code to carry out normal test operation. Without the correct test authorization, the attackers cannot obtain the desired scan data, preventing the scan-based side-channel attacks. Furthermore, the test authorization code is determined by the nonvolatile memory built into the chip to realize the inconsistency of the test authorization code for each chip.

scholarly journals Enhancing Sensor Network Security with Improved Internal Hardware Design

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 1752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weizheng Wang ◽  
Zhuo Deng ◽  
Jin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Mode Switching ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Scan Design ◽  
Test Mode ◽  
Scan Chains ◽  
Functional Mode

With the rapid development of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), sensors are being widely applied in industry and human life. Sensor networks based on IoT have strong Information transmission and processing capabilities. The security of sensor networks is progressively crucial. Cryptographic algorithms are widely used in sensor networks to guarantee security. Hardware implementations are preferred, since software implementations offer lower throughout and require more computational resources. Cryptographic chips should be tested in a manufacturing process and in the field to ensure their quality. As a widely used design-for-testability (DFT) technique, scan design can enhance the testability of the chips by improving the controllability and observability of the internal flip-flops. However, it may become a backdoor to leaking sensitive information related to the cipher key, and thus, threaten the security of a cryptographic chip. In this paper, a secure scan test architecture was proposed to resist scan-based noninvasive attacks on cryptographic chips with boundary scan design. Firstly, the proposed DFT architecture provides the scan chain reset mechanism by gating a mode-switching detection signal into reset input of scan cells. The contents of scan chains will be erased when the working mode is switched between test mode and functional mode, and thus, it can deter mode-switching based noninvasive attacks. Secondly, loading the secret key into scan chains of cryptographic chips is prohibited in the test mode. As a result, the test-mode-only scan attack can also be thwarted. On the other hand, shift operation under functional mode is disabled to overcome scan attack in the functional mode. The proposed secure scheme ensures the security of cryptographic chips for sensor networks with extremely low area penalty.

SPREAD - A Routing Protocol to Meet End-to-end Adjusted Deadline in Real Time Wireless Sensor Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Neetika Jain ◽  
Sangeeta Mittal
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Network Simulator ◽  
Packet Delivery ◽  
High Data ◽  
Hard Real Time

Background: Real Time Wireless Sensor Networks (RT-WSN) have hard real time packet delivery requirements. Due to resource constraints of sensors, these networks need to trade-off energy and latency. Objective: In this paper, a routing protocol for RT-WSN named “SPREAD” has been proposed. The underlying idea is to reserve laxity by assuming tighter packet deadline than actual. This reserved laxity is used when no deadline-meeting next hop is available. Objective: As a result, if due to repeated transmissions, energy of nodes on shortest path is drained out, then time is still left to route the packet dynamically through other path without missing the deadline. Results: Congestion scenarios have been addressed by dynamically assessing 1-hop delays and avoiding traffic on congested paths. Conclusion: Through extensive simulations in Network Simulator NS2, it has been observed that SPREAD algorithm not only significantly reduces miss ratio as compared to other similar protocols but also keeps energy consumption under control. It also shows more resilience towards high data rate and tight deadlines than existing popular protocols.

scholarly journals A Self-Powered PMFC-Based Wireless Sensor Node for Smart City Applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Ayala-Ruiz ◽  
Alejandro Castillo Atoche ◽  
Erica Ruiz-Ibarra ◽  
Edith Osorio de la Rosa ◽  
Javier Vázquez Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Ultra Low Power ◽  
Self Powered

Long power wide area networks (LPWAN) systems play an important role in monitoring environmental conditions for smart cities applications. With the development of Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSN), and energy harvesting devices, ultra-low power sensor nodes (SNs) are able to collect and monitor the information for environmental protection, urban planning, and risk prevention. This paper presents a WSN of self-powered IoT SNs energetically autonomous using Plant Microbial Fuel Cells (PMFCs). An energy harvesting device has been adapted with the PMFC to enable a batteryless operation of the SN providing power supply to the sensor network. The low-power communication feature of the SN network is used to monitor the environmental data with a dynamic power management strategy successfully designed for the PMFC-based LoRa sensor node. Environmental data of ozone (O3) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are monitored in real time through a web application providing IoT cloud services with security and privacy protocols.

scholarly journals Security and privacy concerned association rule mining technique for the accurate frequent pattern identification

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
T. Nusrat Jabeen ◽  
M. Chidambaram ◽  
G. Suseendran
Keyword(s):  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Frequent Pattern ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Simulation Environment ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Mining Technique ◽  
Diffie Hellman

Security and privacy has emerged to be a serious concern in which the business professional don’t desire to share their classified transaction data. In the earlier work, secured sharing of transaction databases are carried out. The performance of those methods is enhanced further by bringing in Security and Privacy aware Large Database Association Rule Mining (SPLD-ARM) framework. Now the Improved Secured Association Rule Mining (ISARM) is introduced for the horizontal and vertical segmentation of huge database. Then k-Anonymization methods referred to as suppression and generalization based Anonymization method is employed for privacy guarantee. At last, Diffie-Hellman encryption algorithm is presented in order to safeguard the sensitive information and for the storage service provider to work on encrypted information. The Diffie-Hellman algorithm is utilized for increasing the quality of the system on the overall by the generation of the secured keys and thus the actual data is protected more efficiently. Realization of the newly introduced technique is conducted in the java simulation environment that reveals that the newly introduced technique accomplishes privacy in addition to security.

Design and Application of the Indoor Environment Monitoring & Control System at Tianjin First Central Hospital

2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 635-638
Author(s):  
Chen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Indoor Environment ◽  
Communication Protocol ◽  
Automatic Monitoring ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Environment Monitoring ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Central Hospital

With advance of our human beings science and technology and enhance of the living standards, more and more people have addressed higher requirements on the environmental conditions in a hospital, therefore, the traditional and no-intelligent monitoring devices are being replaced by the automated and networked monitoring systems gradually. In this case, application of the wireless sensor network just fits this need. This paper proposes the Tianjin First Central Hospital indoor environment monitoring & control system of distributed acquisition and execution, and centralized management by focusing on the needs for the technical indicators of the hospital indoor environment. During design of the system, an universal design concept was put forward, and also a non-standard communication protocol for the wireless sensor network designed independently in combination with the OSI open standard. In this paper, realization of the communication protocol among the nodes with embedded software and the operation mechanism of the modes themselves are discussed, also a console panel has been developed for the data center. Several software design algorithms are proposed with respect to the network layout. This paper also describes the test platform of the Tianjin First Central Hospital indoor environment monitoring & control system established with the network components designed, and provides the test and verification results, including the monitored data of the various gases, corresponding automatic control functions, and underlay BER analysis. The results show that this system can basically realize automatic monitoring on the Tianjin First Central Hospital indoor environment. At present, the sensitive gases include CO, CO2, O2, NH3 and formaldehyde, sensitive environments temperature, humidity and light intensity, and controlled targets ventilation and lighting. This paper offers an optional solution for environment monitoring and has certain theoretical value and engineering significance.

scholarly journals MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR CRYPTOSYSTEM SUGGEST IN EDUCARE OVER CLOUDS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 98-103
Author(s):  
Ravish G K ◽  
Thippeswamy K
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Online Systems ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Time Requirements

In the current situation of the pandemic, global organizations are turning to online functionality to ensure survival and sustainability. The future, even though uncertain, holds great promise for the education system being online. Cloud services for education are the center of this research work as they require security and privacy. The sensitive information about the users and the institutions need to be protected from all interested third parties. since the data delivery on any of the online systems is always time sensitive, the have to be fast. In previous works some of the algorithms were explored and statistical inference based decision was presented. In this work a machine learning system is designed to make that decision based on data type and time requirements.

scholarly journals A Study on Extent of Awareness Among College Students in Security and Privacy Issues in Social Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 676-682
Author(s):  
Dr. J. Padmavathi ◽  
Sirvi Ashok Kumar Mohanlal
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Unrestricted Access ◽  
Privacy Issues

Today Social Media is an integral part of many people’s lives. Most of us are users of one or many of these such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn etc. Social media networks are the most common platform to communicate with our friends, family and share thoughts, photos, videos and lots of other information in the common area of interest. Privacy has become an important concern in social networking sites. Users are not aware of the privacy risks involved on social media sites and they share their sensitive information on social network sites. While these platforms are free and offer unrestricted access to their services, they puzzle the users with many issues such as privacy, security, data harvesting, content censorship, leaking personal information etc. This paper aims at analyzing, the major users of social media networks, namely, the college students. It was intended to assess the extent the consumers’ are aware of the risks of free usage and how to mitigate against these privacy issues.

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