TY  - JOUR
T1  - ECC and AES Based Hybrid Security Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
AU - Mohammed, Susan AU - A. Lafta, Hussein AU - Kh. Al-Alak, Saif M. 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 13
IS  - 24
SP  - 10356
EP  - 10363
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2018.10356.10363
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2018.10356.10363
KW  - ECC
KW  -AES
KW  -WSN
KW  -randomness
KW  -hybrid security
KW  -WSN security
KW  -key generating
AB  - Many applications employ Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) like tracking, controlling, monitoring and transferring. One of the important features of WSN is security. However, in WSN the solutions of security are different from traditional networks due to limited resources and computational constraints. As long as computer techniques are rapidly evolving, security protocols implemented over time can be broken. Keeping secrecy in WSN’s data transmission is a big challenge since this type of wireless networks allows remote data transfer. Cryptography is the security solution of most WSN applications. Recently, asymmetric and symmetric algorithms have been widely used in WSN systems with low computational energy power. This study suggests building a hybrid security protocol of two low power encryption algorithms which are asymmetric Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithm with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) symmetric algorithm. Different key seeds are generated using a proposed combination of multiple ECC algorithms with a hash function. The resulted keys are used to encrypt the secret data using an AES algorithm in WSN communication. Randomized results of the proposed protocol are tested using the Diehard test. The proposed system has high randomness (more security) than other hybrid systems of previous researches.
ER  -