The Cost of Protection Measures in Tactical Networks
Abstract
The security of the Object Force and Future Combat Systems communication is dependent on the Army research community's ability to solve difficult problems in ad hoc routing security. Solving these problems will require (in part) the development of innovative cryptographic methods for protecting routing messages and other communications in wireless ad hoc networks, including strong, efficient methods for authentication. Traditional methods such as digital signatures have significant performance costs, even so routing security researchers have used them to protect routing control messages. Recently, researchers, focusing mainly on commercial networks, have adopted a number of well known lighter weight cryptographic techniques, such as one-time digital signatures (OTDS) and authentication trees, to construct new techniques for faster routing packet authentication and integrity protection. When are these new techniques the correct approach for protecting tactical networks, networks in which the performance characteristics of the devices and protocols can be quite different from commercial counterparts?
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA432010
Entities
People
- Brian J. Matt