Authenticity in a reliable protocol for mobile computing

  • Authors:
  • Nicoletta De Francesco;Marinella Petrocchi

  • Affiliations:
  • Università di Pisa, via Diotisalvi 2 - Pisa, Italy;Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Moruzzi 1 - Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We consider a known protocol for reliable multicast in distributed mobile systems where mobile hosts communicate with a wired infrastructure by means of wireless technology. The original specification of the protocol does not take into consideration any notion of computer security: an adversary may eavesdrop on communications between hosts and inject packets over the wireless links. We suggest a secured version of the protocol providing authenticity and integrity of packets over the wireless links. The secure mechanisms introduced rely on two different techniques: secure wireless channels and 1-time signature schemes. Further, we outline the formal verification of part of the secured protocol.