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Secure routing of information is one of the major concerns of specialist working in the field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) as sensor nodes gather information from the physical world and transmit to base stations for authorized users to access via the internet. In a WSN, sensor nodes are deployed most of the times in unattended locations where there is the possibility of authorized or unauthorized access. This and others have brought the need to secure transmitted information from intruders. Though there are many ways to provide security to a network, cryptography has been identified as the best way for these main three security requirements which include: data confidentiality, authentication, and integrity (CIA). In this paper, we present an overview of the present challenges in a WSN and outline a number of countermeasures to solve these challenges. To tackle the challenge of security encountered in existing WSN systems, we propose an efficient and robust encryption and decryption algorithms for secure communication. The major key feature of this algorithm is that it combines both substitution and transposition cipher techniques in order to achieve the encrypted text. The algorithm is the outcome of the inspection of various existing algorithms in this field.
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Salau, A.O., Marriwala, N., Athaee, M. (2021). Data Security in Wireless Sensor Networks: Attacks and Countermeasures. In: Marriwala, N., Tripathi, C.C., Kumar, D., Jain, S. (eds) Mobile Radio Communications and 5G Networks. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 140. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7130-5_13
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