2019/06/28 by Melati Ismail, Thomas C. Schmidt, Ismail, M. Aiman +1
Computer Science · #Caching and Content Delivery #FOS: Computer and information sciences #IoT and Edge/Fog Computing #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1906.12143
openalex publication_date 2019/06/28 · openalex created_date 2019/07/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
On the Internet of Things (IoT), devices continuously communicate with each other, with a gateway, or other Internet nodes. Often devices are constrained and use insecure channels for their communication, which exposes them to a selection of attacks that may extract sensitive pieces of information or manipulate dialogues for the purpose of sabotaging. This paper presents a new layer in the RIOT networking architecture to seamlessly integrate secure communication between applications using DTLS. The layer acts as a modular abstraction layer of the different DTLS implementations, enabling swapping of the underlying implementation with just a few lines of code. This paper also introduces credman, a new module to manage credentials used for (D)TLS connections.