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With the emergence of small devices equipped with wireless communication, several sophisticated systems for search and rescue have been proposed and developed. However, a key obstacle in large deployment of these systems is vulnerability to users’ security and privacy. On one hand, search and rescue systems need to collect as much information about a user’s location and movement as possible to locate that user in a timely manner. On the other hand, this very capability can be misused by adversaries to stalk a person, which in turn drives users away from using such a system. This paper describes the design, implementation and performance of a security and privacy framework for SenSearch, which is a sensor-based search and rescue system for people in emergency situation in wilderness areas. This framework has been carefully built by employing a combination of symmetric and asymmetric key cryptography to meet the constraints of resource-limited devices and short time intervals during which most security operations have to be performed.
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Huang, JH., Black, J., Mishra, S. (2010). Security and Privacy in a Sensor-Based Search and Rescue System. In: Zheng, J., Mao, S., Midkiff, S.F., Zhu, H. (eds) Ad Hoc Networks. ADHOCNETS 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11723-7_12
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