Title
SecureTime: Secure Multicast Time Synchronization.
Abstract
Due to the increasing dependency of critical infrastructure on synchronized clocks, network time synchronization protocols have become an attractive target for attackers. We identify data origin authentication as the key security objective and suggest to employ recently proposed high-performance digital signature schemes (Ed25519 and MQQ-SIG)) as foundation of a novel set of security measures to secure multicast time synchronization. We conduct experiments to verify the computational and communication efficiency for using these signatures in the standard time synchronization protocols NTP and PTP. We propose additional security measures to prevent replay attacks and to mitigate delay attacks. Our proposed solutions cover 1-step mode for NTP and PTP and we extend our security measures specifically to 2-step mode (PTP) and show that they have no impact on time synchronizationu0027s precision.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Cryptography and Security
Source-specific multicast,Protocol Independent Multicast,Inter-domain,Synchronization,Computer science,Xcast,Data synchronization,Computer network,Secure multicast,Multicast,Distributed computing
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1705.10669
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert Annessi111.08
Joachim Fabini29119.96
Tanja Zseby319936.35