Title
Tailoring Onion Routing to the Internet of Things: Security and Privacy in Untrusted Environments
Abstract
An increasing number of IoT scenarios involve mobile, resource-constrained IoT devices that rely on untrusted networks for Internet connectivity. In such environments, attackers can derive sensitive private information of IoT device owners, e.g., daily routines or secret supply chain procedures, when sniffing on IoT communication and linking IoT devices and owner. Furthermore, untrusted networks do not provide IoT devices with any protection against attacks from the Internet. Anonymous communication using onion routing provides a well-proven mechanism to keep the relationship between communication partners secret and (optionally) protect against network attacks. However, the application of onion routing is challenged by protocol incompatibilities and demanding cryptographic processing on constrained IoT devices, rendering its use infeasible. To close this gap, we tailor onion routing to the IoT by bridging protocol incompatibilities and offloading expensive cryptographic processing to a router or web server of the IoT device owner. Thus, we realize resource-conserving access control and end-to-end security for IoT devices. To prove applicability, we deploy onion routing for the IoT within the well-established Tor network enabling IoT devices to leverage its resources to achieve the same grade of anonymity as readily available to traditional devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICNP.2019.8888033
2019 IEEE 27th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
tailoring onion routing,untrusted environments,resource-constrained IoT devices,untrusted networks,Internet connectivity,IoT device owner,secret supply chain procedures,IoT communication,protocol incompatibilities,cryptographic processing,internet of things,Web server,resource-conserving access control,end-to-end security
Cryptography,Computer science,Computer network,Access control,Router,Anonymity,Internet access,Onion routing,The Internet,Web server
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1092-1648
978-1-7281-2701-9
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
19
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jens Hiller19011.91
Jan Pennekamp25610.99
Markus Dahlmanns322.54
Martin Henze429524.86
Andriy Panchenko530923.05
Klaus Wehrle61062105.97