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A Certificate-Based Pairwise Key Establishment Protocol for IoT Resource-Constrained Devices

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In this paper, we address the problem of security in communication between IoT resource-constrained devices. We propose a peer-to-peer key establishment protocol based on implicit certificates and elliptic curves for low-capacity devices such as sensors. Using an AVL tree, we formulate the relationship between nodes in the same group as a certification chain. We propose a strategy that distributes the load of cryptographic computation over all nodes in the group. The group leader is the root certification authority of its group, and constructs an AVL tree from which a certification chain is established in an ordered fashion with an intermediate certification authority at each level of the tree. The primary nodes of each level are intermediate certification authorities. This trust chain will be used by the nodes to create and exchange implicit certificates on an elliptical curve. For communication between nodes, symmetric keys are derived from the certificates thus created. A realistic implementation of the protocol with TelosB sensors on the TOSSIM simulator shows the robustness of the protocol. In the worst case, the maximum size consumed for RAM is 4101 bytes and 24944 bytes for ROM. When we consider that a TelosB node offers up to 48 kb of ROM for 10 kb of RAM, we can conclude that the protocol is light enough to accommodate resource-constrained devices. Finally, we compare our proposal to three other well-known protocols.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Maroua, P.O. Box 46, Maroua, Cameroon

    Mounirah Djam-Doudou, Ado Adamou Abba Ari & Joel Herve Mboussam Emati

  2. DAVID Lab, Université Paris-Saclay, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Versailles, France

    Ado Adamou Abba Ari & Abdelhak Mourad Gueroui

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, University Institute of Technology, University of Ngaoundéré, P.O. Box 455, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon

    Arouna Ndam Njoya

  4. LANI Lab, Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis, P.O. Box 234, Saint-Louis, Senegal

    Ousmane Thiare

  5. STIC Lab, Abou Bakr Belkaid University of Tlemcen, P.O. Box 230, 13000, Chetouane, Tlemcen, Algeria

    Nabila Labraoui

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Djam-Doudou, M. et al. (2023). A Certificate-Based Pairwise Key Establishment Protocol for IoT Resource-Constrained Devices. In: Ngatched Nkouatchah, T.M., Woungang, I., Tapamo, JR., Viriri, S. (eds) Pan-African Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems. PAAISS 2022. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 459. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25271-6_1

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