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CMPE 259

CMPE 259. Sensor Networks Katia Obraczka Winter 2005 Security. Announcements. Hw3 due today. Project presentations tomorrow from 4-7pm. Project reports due tomorrow by midnight. Security in sensor networks. Security in sensor networks.

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CMPE 259

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  1. CMPE 259 Sensor Networks Katia Obraczka Winter 2005 Security

  2. Announcements • Hw3 due today. • Project presentations tomorrow from 4-7pm. • Project reports due tomorrow by midnight.

  3. Security in sensor networks

  4. Security in sensor networks • For many sensor network applications, security is critical. • Public safety, special operations, healthcare, etc. • Sensor network protocols should incorporate security mechanisms in the original design.

  5. DoS in Sensor Networks [Wood et al.] • What is DoS? • Attack that reduces or eliminates the network’s ability to perform its function. • E.g., hardware failures, software bugs, resource exhaustion, etc. • Paper looks at protocol layers and possible DoS attacks.

  6. Physical layer • Attacks: • Jamming. • Tampering. • Defenses: • Jamming: • Spread-spectrum techniques. • Lower duty cycle with priority messages. • Alternate modes of communication. • Tampering: • “Self-destruction” • Hiding nodes.

  7. Link layer • Attacks: • Collision induction. • Battery exhaustion. • Unfairness. • Defenses: • Collision induction. . Fairness. • Error correcting codes (?) .Small frames. • Collision detection. • Collision-free MAC. • Battery exhaustion. • Rate limitation. • Streamlined protocols.

  8. Network layer: attacks • “Neglect and greed”. • “Homing”. • Misdirection. • Gray/black holes.

  9. Network layer: defenses • Authorization. • Only authorized nodes participate in routing. • Need authentication mechanisms. • Monitoring. • Monitor node behavior. • Probing. • Redundancy.

  10. Transport layer • Attacks: • Flooding. • Desynchronization. • Message fabrication to get end points out of sync. • Defenses: • Flooding: • Limit number of connections. • Challenges/puzzles to clients. • Desynchronization: • Authenticate all messages (including header fields)

  11. Sample protocol vulnerabilities • Adaptive rate control [Woo et al.] • MAC layer modifications to 802.11. • Preference to route-through traffic. • Vulnerabilities? • RAP [Lu et al.] • Similar vulnerability. • Differentiated services can be exploited by attacker.

  12. “On Communication Security…” [Slijepcevic et al.]

  13. Focus • Communication security in sensor networks. • Data classification and related security threats. • Location-based security mechanism.

  14. Types of data • Mobile code. • Sensor node location. • Application data. • Goals: • Minimize security-related energy consumption. • Different protection levels.

  15. Target sensor net architecture • Localized algorithms. • Local broadcast. • Mobile code.

  16. Security threats • Insertion of malicious code. • Interception of messages with node location information. • Interception of application data. • Injection of false data. Lower risk.

  17. Security architecture • Symmetric key encryption. • All messages encrypted. • Three security levels: • Level I: mobile code. • Level II: node location information. • Level III: application data. • Encryption strength: • Level I > level II > level III. • Encryption algorithm with adjustable strength (number of rounds).

  18. Security architecture (cont’d) • Group keys. • Every user: set of keys, pseudorandom generator, and seed. • Periodically and synchronously, nodes change keys.

  19. Security levels • Level I uses strongest encryption for mobile code injection. • 32 rounds. • Level II: • Location-based keys. • Different for different “cells”. • Protect network from compromised keys. • Level I: • Weakest security. • 22 rounds.

  20. Performance • Cost of encryption/decryption. • Energy considerations. • Rockwell WINS node.

  21. “Secure Routing…” [Karlof et al.]

  22. Focus • Routing security in sensor networks. • Problem: • Current routing protocols for sensor networks do not consider security. • Vulnerable to attacks. • Not easy to make these protocols secure.

  23. Contributions • Threat models and security goals for sensor network routing. • Two new attacks: sinkhole and HELLO floods. • Security analysis of routing and topology control algorithms. • Attacks against these protocols. • Countermeasures and design issues for secure routing in sensor networks.

  24. Deployment and platform • Heterogeneous deployment. • Mica motes with TinyOS. • Base stations. • Aggregation points.

  25. Sensor- and ad-hoc networks • Traffic considerations: • Ad hoc networks exhibit more general patterns. • Sensor networks: • Many-to-one. • One-to-many. • Local. • Capabilities. • Sensor nodes are typically more limited. • Trust relationships. • E.g., to perform aggregation, duplicate pruning, etc.

  26. Attacks • Spoofed, altered, replayed routing information. • Selective forwarding. • Black/gray hole. • Sinkhole. • Sybil. • Single nodes presents multiple id’s to others. • Wormhole. • HELLO flood. • (Link-layer) ACK spoofing.

  27. Countermeasures • Outsider attacks: • Link layer encryption and authentication. • Shared keys. • Insider attacks: • Identity verification. • Multipath routing. • Bi-directional link verification. • Limiting number of neighbors. • Sinkhole and wormhole attacks are harder to circumvent. • Design routing protocols where these attacks are ineffective. • E.g., geographic routing. ???

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