The Empirical Evaluation of a Security-Oriented Datagram Protocol

Abstract

Performance considerations played an important role in the design of the Authenticated Datagram Protocol (ADP), a subtransport-level host-to-host datagram protocol that contains cryptographic mechanisms for end-to-end authentication and, optionally, privacy of messages. Several performance-motivated features were introduced into ADP. This paper describes the first phase of a measurement-based study of ADP intended to determine the actual effects of each of those features on the protocol's performance. The experiments were trace-driven, and took place between two workstations in a laboratory setting. The results in every case demonstrated the usefulness of the features in question, but not always for the reasons that motivated their introduction into the design.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA619421

Entities

People

  • B. Sartirana
  • D. Ferrari
  • D. P. Anderson
  • P. V. Rangan

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymetric Encryption
  • Authentication
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Science
  • Cryptography
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Links
  • Local Area Networks
  • Measurement
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Secure Communications
  • Servers (Computer Hardware)
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transport Protocols

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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