Secure routing using factual correctness

Authors:
Muthusrinivasan Muthuprasanna;Govindarasu Manimaran
Affiliations:
Iowa State University;Iowa State University
Venue:
NETWORKING'06 Proceedings of the 5th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The routing protocols in use today operate on implicit trust among the different routers. Specifically, the distance vector routing (DVR) protocols compute routing tables in a distributed manner, based on this implicit trust. This trust model however fails to ensure the factual correctness of the routing updates, which is very critical for secure routing. We propose a neighbor update propagation model to ensure factual correctness and detect malicious activity by any subverted router. We also propose a secure DVR protocol based on this model using simple cryptographic primitives, and with minimal operational overhead.