Authors:
Mahdi Aiash
and
Jonathan Loo
Affiliation:
Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Information-centric Network, Network of Information, Capability-based Access Control, Casper/FDR.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Access Control
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Data Security
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Internet Technology
;
Network Security
;
Security in Distributed Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Wireless Network Security
Abstract:
Communications in Information-Centric Networking place more attention on WHAT data are being exchanged
rather than WHO are exchanging them. A well-established approach of information centric networks is the
Network of Information (NetInf) architecture, developed as part of the EU FP7 project SAIL. The security of
NetInf has been fairly analysed in the literature. In particular, research efforts have been focusing on achieving
data integrity and confidentially, source or publisher authenticity and authorization. This paper analyses some
work in the literature to enforce authorized access to data in NetInf, highlights a potential security threat and
proposes an enhancement to address the discovered threat. The new enhancement has been formally verified
using formal method approach based on the Casper/FDR tool.