Feasibility study for authenticated key exchange protocols on underwater acoustic sensor networks
The paper concerns a comparative performance evaluation of protocols for two honest parties to securely share a common secret session key in an Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network (UASN) scenario. The simulation-based comparison is performed by implementing in SUNSET SDCS three key exchange protocols and two solutions for implicit certificate distribution. The three key exchange solutions are the Fully Hashed Menezes-Qu-Vanstone, the Hashed One-pass Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (both based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography) and Diffie-Hellman.