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Efficient Multicast Authentication in Energy Automation Environments

Authors:
Steffen Fries
Rainer Falk

Keywords: security; device authentication; multicast; realtime; network access authentication; firewall

Abstract:
Abstract—Information security is gaining increasingly more importance for real-time industrial automation networks. Multicast communication is used widely especially on field and process level to cope with performance requirements and to ease the handling of communication peers as the destinations need not to be known by the sender. A security design must not interfere with these communication types. For these reasons, a solution is required allowing to perform an efficient authentication of field level multicast communication.

Pages: 65 to 71

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: March 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-412X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-259-2

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from March 24, 2013 to March 29, 2013