Emerging challenges in designing secure mobile appliances

  • Authors:
  • Srivaths Ravi;Anand Raghunathan;Jean-Jacques Quisquater;Sunil Hattangady

  • Affiliations:
  • NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ;NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ;Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, TX

  • Venue:
  • Ambient intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Realizing the visions of ubiquitous computing and communications, and ambient intelligence will require modern electronic and computing systems to pervade all aspects of our everyday lives. These systems are used to capture, manipulate, store and communicate a wide range of sensitive and personal information. It is, therefore, not surprising that security is emerging as a critical concern that must be addressed in order to enable these trends. Mobile appliances, which will play a critical role in ambient intelligence, are perhaps the most challenging to secure. They often rely on a public medium for (wireless) communications, are easily lost or stolen due to their small form factors and mobility, and are highly constrained in cost and size, as well as computing and battery resources.This paper presents an introduction to security concerns in mobile appliances, and translates them into challenges that confront system architects, HW engineers, and SW developers. These challenges include the need to bridge the mismatch in security processing requirements and processing capabilities (processing gap), the need to address the burden of security processing on battery life, the need for flexible security processing architectures to keep up with evolving and diverse security standards, and, lastly, a need for providing countermeasures against various kinds of attacks and threats. We also survey recent innovations and emerging commercial technologies that address these issues.