Principles of Secure BootStrapping for IoT

PI: Ninghui Li; Researchers: Syed Hussain (Post Doc), Weicheng Wang (Graduate Student)

HARD PROBLEM(S) ADDRESSED
This refers to Hard Problems, released November 2012.

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PUBLICATIONS
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• We evaluated our proposed enhancements to the Zigbee protocol (which we made to avoid vulnerabilities in Zigbee that we identified). First, we used ProVerif to verify the correctness of the proposed protocols. Second, we implemented and deployed our enhanced protocol to evaluate and compare with the Zigbee standard implementations in terms of delay, memory usage, and message size. The enhanced protocol does not introduce extra messages and induces only 3.8% overhead on average for the entire join procedure.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS

EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES:

• A PhD student is supported on the project. In addition, a postdoctoral fellow, who plans to go into the academia, is being partially supported.