Secure identity-to-identity communications over Content-Centric Networking

A novel network architecture to allow secure identity-based communications, which is completely location independent, supports the mobility of communication parties, prevents traceability, and is designed to work over multiple underlying network infrastructures is proposed.

Abstract

In this paper we propose a novel network architecture to allow secure identity-based communications, which is completely location independent, supports the mobility of communication parties, prevents traceability, and is designed to work over multiple underlying network infrastructures. Apart from describing the operation of our architecture and protocol, we discuss its security capabilities and other important aspects. Furthermore, we show how to instantiate the architecture in top of Content-Centric Networking (CCN) infrastructure, explaining how to build a test application based on the architecture and, finally, discuss the results obtained from the tests.