Identity Based Cryptography In WSN

Users of wireless sensor networks face difficulties like key distribution. Also there is a large number of keys saved in them. Thus, they tended to use public key cryptography for identification and key agreement. On the other hand, certificate-based public key cryptography makes use of public key infrastructure (PKI). Clearly implementing PKI requires a large amount of memory computations and communications which are impassible for sensor networks. To solve this problem we can use identity based cryptography (IBC). In this type of cryptography, user’s public identities like their IP or email addresses are used as their public key as a result, there will be no need for PKI. After introduction of pairing based cryptography, this type of cryptography was applicable used. In this paper, we will take a look at how to use pairings on wireless sensor networks.