Dutta and Mukhopadhyay have recently proposed some very efficient selfhealing key distribution schemes with revocation. The parameters of these schemes contradict some results (lower bounds) presented by Blundo et al. In this paper different attacks against the schemes of Dutta and Mukhopadhyay are explained: one of them can be easily avoided with a slight modification in the schemes, but the o...

The most common solution for implementing access control into a dynamic group is to use a group key unknown to all but the users in the group. The group key (i.e., session key) is updated for every session throughout the lifetime of the group with the procedure of group key distribution. In this paper, we propose a group key distribution scheme with self-healing property that enables users in a...

Early researches focused on the security of homogenous sensor networks. However, recent works have demonstrated that the presence of heterogeneous sensor nodes gives better performance than homogenous ones in terms of energy consumptions, storage overhead, and network connectivity. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical key management scheme named HERO which is based on random key pre-distrib...

Traditional key management techniques, such as public key cryptography or key distribution center (e.g., Kerberos), are often not effective for wireless sensor networks for the serious limitations in terms of computational power, energy supply, network bandwidth. In order to balance the security and efficiency, we propose a new scheme by employing LU Composition techniques for mutual authentica...