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Secure and Efficient Key Exchange Mechanism for Heterogeneous Connected Objects

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The fast evolution in microelectronics and the emergence of wireless communication technologies, have allowed the appearance of the promising field of Internet of Things (IoT). The latter is more and more present in the human life, that is why it becomes essential to secure the communications done with the connected objects. Almost all communicating systems attach great importance to security, consequently, on the cryptographic key management. The existing key management schemes for conventional networks are relatively resource-intensive, that is why they are not adequate for resource-constrained networks like IoT, especially since the nodes’ capabilities are heterogeneous. In this paper, we focus on exchanging and updating of cryptographic keys among the IoT objects often limited in resources, where we propose a new form of key exchange based on the mechanism of concealing encryption keys, while exploiting the misused spaces in the header fields of the exchanged packets by the communication standards, such as ZigBee, BLE, WiFi.

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  1. 2TDEA operates under three keys, in which the first and third ones are identical. The conventional size of each key is 56 bits, and hence, the natural total size would be 112 bits. However, as reported in [7], the 2TDEA crypto-system becomes solid starting from a total key size of 80 bits. That’s why we keep the lower configuration of keys in order to square with the requirements imposed by the network, which is quite constrained in terms of resources.

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This work has been sponsored by General Directorate for Scientific Research and Technological Development, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (DGRSDT), Algeria.

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    Sofiane Aissani, Tarek Fettioune, Nafaa Maizia & Mohamed Mohammedi

  2. LIGM, Univ Gustave-Eiffel, Noisy-le-Grand, France

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Aissani, S., Fettioune, T., Maizia, N. et al. Secure and Efficient Key Exchange Mechanism for Heterogeneous Connected Objects. Wireless Pers Commun 120, 2631–2652 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08549-2

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