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Available online at Procedia Computer Science 5 (2011) 115–122 The 2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies A Secure Platform of Wireless Sensor Networks a b a a a, Abidalrahman Moh’d , Hosein Marzi , Nauman Aslam , William Phillips , William Robertson a* aDepartment of Engineering Mathematics and Internetworking, Dalhousie University 1340 Barrington Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 2X4, Canada bDepartment of Information systems, St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5, Canada Abstract Security was not considered when current wireless sensor nodes were designed. As a result providing high level of security on current WSNs platforms is unattainable, especially against attacks based on key resolving and node compromise. In this paper we scrutinize the security holes in current WSNs platforms, and compare the main approaches to implementing the cryptographic primitives used to provide security services for these platforms, in terms of security, energy, and time efficiency. To secure these holes and provide more efficiency we propose a custom hardware platform for WSNs. The choice of cryptographic primitives for our suggested platform is based on their compatibility with the constrained nature of WSNs and their security status. We also discuss the most efficient configurations and implementation methodologies of these primitives, and review their specialized implementations for WSNs in recent literature. Based