Cryptography Mechanisms For access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
For secure communication among sensors, secret keys must be established between them. Many key establishment techniques have been designed to address the trade-off between limited memory and security, but which scheme is the most effective is still debatable Sunil Gupta & Mriutnjay Singh Security allows wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to be used with confidence. Without security, the use of WSN in any application domain would result in undesirable consequences. The basic idea of a WSN is to disperse tiny sensing devices that are capable of sensing some changes of incidents/parameters and communicating with other devices, over a specific geographic area for some specific purposes like target tracking, surveillance and environmental monitoring. Basically, the major challenge for employing any efficient security scheme in wireless sensor networks is created by the size of sensors, followed by the processing power, memory and type of tasks expected from the sensors. Challenges ...