Secured remote sensing by deploying clone-resistant Secret Unknown Ciphers

Abstract

Secured remote sensing is becoming a widely required technology to make certified measurements at remote sites via Internet of Things (IoT) without the need for trusted personal efforts. This is essentially required for reading huge number of meters such as consumed energy, gas, electricity or water meters. It is necessary to produce such meters at low-cost deploying standard System-on-Chip (SoC) units. Such units can serve as smart meters to cover all control, management, and IoT communication tasks. A Secret Unknown Cipher (SUC) concept was introduced in [3]. SUC can be created in a post fabrication process making SoC units unique and clone-resistant [4]. The paper in presenting a low-cost two-way protocol for SoC environment using such units to achieve secured machine to machine (M2M) remote measurement with scalable relatively high security against cloning or manipulation attacks. The SoC manufacturer is completely end-user defined and do not involve manufacturer in the security concept.