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Sea of Lights: Practical Device-to-Device Security Bootstrapping in the Dark

Álvarez, Flor ; Hollick, Matthias (2019)
Sea of Lights: Practical Device-to-Device Security Bootstrapping in the Dark.
43rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). Chicago, IL, USA (01.10.2018-04.10.2018)
doi: 10.1109/LCN.2018.8638102
Konferenzveröffentlichung, Bibliographie

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

Practical solutions to bootstrap security in today's information and communication systems critically depend on centralized services for authentication as well as key and trust management. This is particularly true for mobile users. Identity providers such as Google or Facebook have active user bases of two billion each, and the subscriber number of mobile operators exceeds five billion unique users as of early 2018. If these centralized services go completely 'dark' due to natural or man made disasters, large scale blackouts, or country-wide censorship, the users are left without practical solutions to bootstrap security on their mobile devices. Existing distributed solutions, for instance, the so-called web-of-trust are not sufficiently lightweight. Furthermore, they support neither cross-application on mobile devices nor strong protection of key material using hardware security modules. We propose Sea of Lights (SOL), a practical lightweight scheme for bootstrapping device-to-device security wirelessly, thus, enabling secure distributed self-organized networks. It is tailored to operate `in the dark' and provides strong protection of key material as well as an intuitive means to build a lightweight web-of-trust. SOL is particularly well suited for local or urban operation in scenarios such as the coordination of emergency response, where it helps containing/limiting the spreading of misinformation. As a proof of concept, we implement SOL in the Android platform and hence test its feasibility on real mobile devices. We further evaluate its key performance aspects using simulation.

Typ des Eintrags: Konferenzveröffentlichung
Erschienen: 2019
Autor(en): Álvarez, Flor ; Hollick, Matthias
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: Sea of Lights: Practical Device-to-Device Security Bootstrapping in the Dark
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 11 Februar 2019
Verlag: IEEE
Veranstaltungstitel: 43rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
Veranstaltungsort: Chicago, IL, USA
Veranstaltungsdatum: 01.10.2018-04.10.2018
DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2018.8638102
URL / URN: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8638102
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

Practical solutions to bootstrap security in today's information and communication systems critically depend on centralized services for authentication as well as key and trust management. This is particularly true for mobile users. Identity providers such as Google or Facebook have active user bases of two billion each, and the subscriber number of mobile operators exceeds five billion unique users as of early 2018. If these centralized services go completely 'dark' due to natural or man made disasters, large scale blackouts, or country-wide censorship, the users are left without practical solutions to bootstrap security on their mobile devices. Existing distributed solutions, for instance, the so-called web-of-trust are not sufficiently lightweight. Furthermore, they support neither cross-application on mobile devices nor strong protection of key material using hardware security modules. We propose Sea of Lights (SOL), a practical lightweight scheme for bootstrapping device-to-device security wirelessly, thus, enabling secure distributed self-organized networks. It is tailored to operate `in the dark' and provides strong protection of key material as well as an intuitive means to build a lightweight web-of-trust. SOL is particularly well suited for local or urban operation in scenarios such as the coordination of emergency response, where it helps containing/limiting the spreading of misinformation. As a proof of concept, we implement SOL in the Android platform and hence test its feasibility on real mobile devices. We further evaluate its key performance aspects using simulation.

Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 20 Fachbereich Informatik
20 Fachbereich Informatik > Sichere Mobile Netze
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Letzte Änderung: 10 Jun 2021 06:11
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