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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
Conference or Workshop Item, Bibliographie

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.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item
Erschienen: 2019
Creators: Álvarez, Flor ; Hollick, Matthias
Type of entry: Bibliographie
Title: Sea of Lights: Practical Device-to-Device Security Bootstrapping in the Dark
Language: English
Date: 11 February 2019
Publisher: IEEE
Event Title: 43rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
Event Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Event Dates: 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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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.

Divisions: 20 Department of Computer Science
20 Department of Computer Science > Sichere Mobile Netze
Date Deposited: 06 Jun 2019 05:26
Last Modified: 10 Jun 2021 06:11
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