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Key exchange with the help of a public ledger
Blockchains and other public ledger structures promise a new way to create
globally consistent event logs and other records. We make use of this
consistency property to detect and prevent man-in-the-middle attacks in a key
exchange such as Diffie-Hellman or ECDH. Essentially, the MitM attack creates
an inconsistency in the world views of the two honest parties, and they can
detect it with the help of the ledger. Thus, there is no need for prior
knowledge or trusted third parties apart from the distributed ledger. To
prevent impersonation attacks, we require user interaction. It appears that, in
some applications, the required user interaction is reduced in comparison to
other user-assisted key-exchange protocols
Effective Caching for the Secure Content Distribution in Information-Centric Networking
The secure distribution of protected content requires consumer authentication
and involves the conventional method of end-to-end encryption. However, in
information-centric networking (ICN) the end-to-end encryption makes the
content caching ineffective since encrypted content stored in a cache is
useless for any consumer except those who know the encryption key. For
effective caching of encrypted content in ICN, we propose a novel scheme,
called the Secure Distribution of Protected Content (SDPC). SDPC ensures that
only authenticated consumers can access the content. The SDPC is a lightweight
authentication and key distribution protocol; it allows consumer nodes to
verify the originality of the published article by using a symmetric key
encryption. The security of the SDPC was proved with BAN logic and Scyther tool
verification.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures, 2018 IEEE 87th Vehicular Technology Conference
(VTC Spring
Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey
This book chapter identifies various security threats in wireless mesh
network (WMN). Keeping in mind the critical requirement of security and user
privacy in WMNs, this chapter provides a comprehensive overview of various
possible attacks on different layers of the communication protocol stack for
WMNs and their corresponding defense mechanisms. First, it identifies the
security vulnerabilities in the physical, link, network, transport, application
layers. Furthermore, various possible attacks on the key management protocols,
user authentication and access control protocols, and user privacy preservation
protocols are presented. After enumerating various possible attacks, the
chapter provides a detailed discussion on various existing security mechanisms
and protocols to defend against and wherever possible prevent the possible
attacks. Comparative analyses are also presented on the security schemes with
regards to the cryptographic schemes used, key management strategies deployed,
use of any trusted third party, computation and communication overhead involved
etc. The chapter then presents a brief discussion on various trust management
approaches for WMNs since trust and reputation-based schemes are increasingly
becoming popular for enforcing security in wireless networks. A number of open
problems in security and privacy issues for WMNs are subsequently discussed
before the chapter is finally concluded.Comment: 62 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables. This chapter is an extension of the
author's previous submission in arXiv submission: arXiv:1102.1226. There are
some text overlaps with the previous submissio
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