PrudentExposure: A Private and User-centric Service Discovery Protocol

  • Authors:
  • Feng Zhu;Matt Mutka;Lionel Ni

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PERCOM '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Service Discovery as an essential elementin pervasive computing environments is widely accepted.Much active research on service discovery has beenconducted, but privacy has been ignored and may besacrificed. While it is essential that legitimate usersshould be able to discover services of which they havecredentials, it is also necessary that services be hiddenfrom illegitimate users. Since service information,service provider's information, service requests, andcredentials to access services via service discoveryprotocols may be sensitive, we may want to keep themprivate. Existing service discovery protocols do notsolve these problems. We present a user-centric model,called PrudentExposure, as the first approach designedfor exposing minimal information privately, securely,and automatically for both service providers and users ofservice discovery protocols. We analyze themathematical properties of our model and formallyverify our security protocol.