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Wireless Sensor Network, 2011, 3, 10-17 doi:10.4236/wsn.2011.31002 Published Online January 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wsn) Concealed Integrity Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks Björn Stelte, Thomas Bühring Institut für Technische Informatik, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany E-mail : {bjoern.stelte, thomas.buehring}@unibw.de Received December 21, 2010; revised December 29, 2010; accepted January 5, 2011 Abstract Nowadays, sensor networks are widely installed around the world. Typical sensors provide data for health- care, energy management, environmental monitoring, etc. In the future sensors will become a part of critical infrastructures. In such a scenario the network operator has to monitor the integrity of the network devices, otherwise the trustworthiness of the whole system is questionable. The problem is that every integrity proto- col needs a secure channel between the devices. Therefore, we will introduce a covert channel for hidden transportation of integrity monitoring messages. The covert channel enables us to hide integrity check mes- sages embedded into regular traffic without giving potential attackers a hint on the used integrity protocol. Keywords: Covert Channel, Integrity Monitoring, Wireless Sensor Network 1. Introduction particular network is actually being monitored. Plain encryption of the communication channel in contrast A possible scenario for a distributed system that needs does not provide a similar level of deception, since it close monitoring of its integrity is a wireless sensor net- may s