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Modified Koblitz Encoding Method for ECC

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Int. J. on Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology,, 8 (1): 5 (January 2013)

Abstract

Extensive use of Wireless Sensor Networks is giving rise to different types of threats in certain commercial and military applications. To protect the WSN data communication against various threats appropriate security schemes are needed. However, WSN nodes are resource constrained, with respect to limited battery energy, and limited computational and memory available with each WSN node. Hence, the security model to be used in WSN’s should use minimal resources to the extent possible and it should also provide good security. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is the best suited algorithm for WSNs, as it offers better security for smaller key sizes compared to the popular RSA algorithm. In ECC, encoding of message data to a point lying on the give Elliptic Curve is a major problem as the encoding consumes more resources. This paper provides a novel encoding procedure to overcome these problems to a large extent. This paper also describes implementation aspects of the proposed encoding and decoding methods.

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