Trustworthy Environmental Monitoring Using Hardware-Assisted Security Mechanisms

Laurent Segers; Borna Talebi; Bruno da Silva; Abdellah Touhafi; An Braeken

doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/s24144720

Trustworthy Environmental Monitoring Using Hardware-Assisted Security Mechanisms

Laurent Segers, Borna Talebi, Bruno da Silva, Abdellah Touhafi, An Braeken

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

Environmental monitoring is essential for safeguarding the health of our planet and protecting human health and well-being. Without trust, the effectiveness of environmental monitoring and the ability to address environmental challenges are significantly compromised. In this paper, we present a sensor platform capable of performing authenticated and trustworthy measurements, together with a lightweight security protocol for sending the data from the sensor to a central server anonymously. Besides presenting a new and very efficient symmetric-key-based protocol, we also demonstrate on real hardware how existing embedded security modules can be utilized for this purpose. We provide an in-depth evaluation of the performance and a detailed security analysis.

Original language	English
Article number	4720
Number of pages	26
Journal	Sensors
Volume	24
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s24144720
Publication status	Published - 20 Jul 2024

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work is part of the COllective Research NETworking (CORNET) project \u201CTrustedIOT: Trusted Computing Architectures for IoT Devices\u201D. The Belgian partners are funded by VLAIO under grant number HBC.2021.0895, while the German partners are funded by the BMWi (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) under IGF-Project Number 343 EBG.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 by the authors.

Access to Document

https://doi.org/10.3390/s24144720Licence: CC BY

Cite this

@article{3c1d49d4f9b44b00a809fa15de2e5c79,

title = "Trustworthy Environmental Monitoring Using Hardware-Assisted Security Mechanisms",

abstract = "Environmental monitoring is essential for safeguarding the health of our planet and protecting human health and well-being. Without trust, the effectiveness of environmental monitoring and the ability to address environmental challenges are significantly compromised. In this paper, we present a sensor platform capable of performing authenticated and trustworthy measurements, together with a lightweight security protocol for sending the data from the sensor to a central server anonymously. Besides presenting a new and very efficient symmetric-key-based protocol, we also demonstrate on real hardware how existing embedded security modules can be utilized for this purpose. We provide an in-depth evaluation of the performance and a detailed security analysis.",

keywords = "Secure IoT, TrustZone, Secure IoT communication, key agreement protoco, low-power Secure IoT",

author = "Laurent Segers and Borna Talebi and {da Silva}, Bruno and Abdellah Touhafi and An Braeken",

note = "Funding Information: This work is part of the COllective Research NETworking (CORNET) project \u201CTrustedIOT: Trusted Computing Architectures for IoT Devices\u201D. The Belgian partners are funded by VLAIO under grant number HBC.2021.0895, while the German partners are funded by the BMWi (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) under IGF-Project Number 343 EBG. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 by the authors.",

year = "2024",

month = jul,

day = "20",

doi = "https://doi.org/10.3390/s24144720",

language = "English",

volume = "24",

journal = "Sensors",

issn = "1424-8220",

publisher = "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)",

number = "14",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Trustworthy Environmental Monitoring Using Hardware-Assisted Security Mechanisms

AU - Segers, Laurent

AU - Talebi, Borna

AU - da Silva, Bruno

AU - Touhafi, Abdellah

AU - Braeken, An

N1 - Funding Information: This work is part of the COllective Research NETworking (CORNET) project \u201CTrustedIOT: Trusted Computing Architectures for IoT Devices\u201D. The Belgian partners are funded by VLAIO under grant number HBC.2021.0895, while the German partners are funded by the BMWi (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) under IGF-Project Number 343 EBG. Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.

PY - 2024/7/20

Y1 - 2024/7/20

N2 - Environmental monitoring is essential for safeguarding the health of our planet and protecting human health and well-being. Without trust, the effectiveness of environmental monitoring and the ability to address environmental challenges are significantly compromised. In this paper, we present a sensor platform capable of performing authenticated and trustworthy measurements, together with a lightweight security protocol for sending the data from the sensor to a central server anonymously. Besides presenting a new and very efficient symmetric-key-based protocol, we also demonstrate on real hardware how existing embedded security modules can be utilized for this purpose. We provide an in-depth evaluation of the performance and a detailed security analysis.

AB - Environmental monitoring is essential for safeguarding the health of our planet and protecting human health and well-being. Without trust, the effectiveness of environmental monitoring and the ability to address environmental challenges are significantly compromised. In this paper, we present a sensor platform capable of performing authenticated and trustworthy measurements, together with a lightweight security protocol for sending the data from the sensor to a central server anonymously. Besides presenting a new and very efficient symmetric-key-based protocol, we also demonstrate on real hardware how existing embedded security modules can be utilized for this purpose. We provide an in-depth evaluation of the performance and a detailed security analysis.

KW - Secure IoT

KW - TrustZone

KW - Secure IoT communication

KW - key agreement protoco

KW - low-power Secure IoT

U2 - https://doi.org/10.3390/s24144720

DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/s24144720

M3 - Article

VL - 24

JO - Sensors

JF - Sensors

SN - 1424-8220

IS - 14

M1 - 4720

ER -