A cryptographic suite for underwater cooperative applications

Author

Dini, Gianluca ; Duca, Angelica Lo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ing. della Inf., Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

June 28 2011-July 1 2011

Firstpage

870

Lastpage

875

Abstract

An underwater acoustic scenario raises many problems in terms of security because of the limited bandwidth provided by the underwater medium. In this paper we face with the problem of secure cooperation among underwater acoustic vehicles. We propose a cryptographic suite able to reduce at the minimum the message overhead added by security. The cryptographic suite provides vehicles authentication, confidentiality and integrity of messages and key management. A prototype has been implemented and preliminary performance evaluation tests are shown.

Keywords

cryptographic protocols; message authentication; telecommunication security; underwater acoustic communication; cryptographic suite; key management; message confidentiality; message integrity; message overhead; secure cooperation; underwater acoustic scenario; underwater acoustic vehicle; underwater cooperative applications; vehicles authentication; Authentication; Cryptography; Engines; Protocols; Underwater acoustics; Vehicles; applied cryptography; security; underwater acoustic network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2011 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kerkyra

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0680-6

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1346

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2011.5983951

Filename

5983951