Carrier data security using public key steganography in ZigBee

Abstract

The present time has witnessed a tremendous increase in communications over wireless personal area networks. These communications even include credentials or other sensitive information that in any case need to be protected and not to be read by any third party. So the security of such communications has become a concern and should be emphasized accordingly. A secure communication needs to be communicated in a way that's not susceptible to any sort of eavesdropping or interception. The secure communication defends against the unofficial and the unauthorized interceptors from accessing the communications but still delivering the desired content to the intended communicating parties. Security breaches or the interceptors cannot be totally blocked but such procedures should be taken in account that even if an attack or any sort of an intrusion occurs, the parties involved in the communication must be intimated that there has been some sort of an unwanted interference in the communication taking place. This paper presents a proposition for securing the carrier data by means of Public Key Steganography in the wireless personal area network protocol ZigBee. The proposition doles out with dispensing a secret message to the communicating parties in case of an attack or any attempt compromising the security of data.