TinyECC: A Configurable Library for Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks Export

@proceedings{citeulike:3041956, abstract = {Public key cryptography (PKC) has been the enabling technology underlying many security services and protocols in traditional networks such as the Internet. In the context of wireless sensor networks, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), one of the most efficient types of PKC, is being investigated to provide PKC support in sensor network applications so that the existing PKC-based solutions can be exploited. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of TinyECC, a configurable library for ECC operations in wireless sensor networks. The primary objective of TinyECC is to provide a ready-to-use, publicly available software package for ECC-based PKC operations that can be flexibly configured and integrated into sensor network applications. TinyECC provides a number of optimization switches, which can turn specific optimizations on or off based on developers' needs. Different combinations of the optimizations have different execution time and resource consumptions, giving developers great flexibility in integrating TinyECC into sensor network applications. This paper also reports the experimental evaluation of TinyECC on several common sensor platforms, including MICAz, Tmote Sky, and Imotel. The evaluation results show the impacts of individual optimizations on the execution time and resource consumptions, and give the most computationally efficient and the most storage efficient configuration of TinyECC.}, author = {Liu, An and Ning, Peng}, booktitle = {Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2008. IPSN '08. International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {3041956}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1372738}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPSN.2008.47}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4505478}, doi = {10.1109/IPSN.2008.47}, journal = {Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2008. IPSN '08. International Conference on}, keywords = {public-key, security}, pages = {245--256}, posted-at = {2009-05-04 16:40:54}, priority = {2}, title = {TinyECC: A Configurable Library for Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPSN.2008.47}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3041956 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3041956 N2 - Public key cryptography (PKC) has been the enabling technology underlying many security services and protocols in traditional networks such as the Internet. In the context of wireless sensor networks, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), one of the most efficient types of PKC, is being investigated to provide PKC support in sensor network applications so that the existing PKC-based solutions can be exploited. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of TinyECC, a configurable library for ECC operations in wireless sensor networks. The primary objective of TinyECC is to provide a ready-to-use, publicly available software package for ECC-based PKC operations that can be flexibly configured and integrated into sensor network applications. TinyECC provides a number of optimization switches, which can turn specific optimizations on or off based on developers' needs. Different combinations of the optimizations have different execution time and resource consumptions, giving developers great flexibility in integrating TinyECC into sensor network applications. This paper also reports the experimental evaluation of TinyECC on several common sensor platforms, including MICAz, Tmote Sky, and Imotel. The evaluation results show the impacts of individual optimizations on the execution time and resource consumptions, and give the most computationally efficient and the most storage efficient configuration of TinyECC. JF - Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2008. IPSN '08. International Conference on EP - 256 TI - TinyECC: A Configurable Library for Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks T2 - Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2008. IPSN '08. International Conference on SP - 245 KW - public-key KW - security AU - Liu, An AU - Ning, Peng PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPSN.2008.47 ER -