Performance of the Controlled Randomness Protocol on .NET Compact Framework Embedded Systems

Author

Stefanidis, Kyriakos G. ; Voyiatzis, Artemios G. ; Serpanos, Dimitrios N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece

fYear

2011

fDate

7-10 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The Controlled Randomness Protocol (CRP) for management of cryptographic keys is a method to improve the security level of secure communication protocols. We assess the performance of the CRP when implemented on embedded systems running the .NET Compact Framework. We present our findings from two different platforms: one smartphone running .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and one smartphone running .NET Compact Framework 4.0. Our assessment verifies that when implemented in the .NET Compact Framework, the controlled randomness protocol imposes a configurable and tolerable amount of overhead computation while it offers a significant security improvement compared to a conventional implementation of a key management protocol.

Keywords

cryptographic protocols; embedded systems; telecommunication network management; telecommunication security; .NET; CRP; communication security; controlled randomness protocol; cryptographic protocol; embedded systems; key management protocol; smartphone; Embedded systems; Encryption; Mobile communication; Protocols; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2011 4th IFIP International Conference on

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

2157-4952

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8705-9

Electronic_ISBN

2157-4952

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NTMS.2011.5720619

Filename

5720619