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Impact on the inclusion of security in the UPnP protocol within the Smart Home

Authors:
Alberto Alonso Fernández
Alejandro Álvarez Vázquez
María del Pilar Almudena García Fuente
Ignacio González Alonso

Keywords: DHCompliant; Security; Data Encryption; UPnP

Abstract:
This paper describes the impact caused by an encryption security system on a protocol for interoperability between robots and home automation. DHCompliant is an open source interoperability protocol supported by the UPnP standard. Until today, UPnP does not provide mechanisms for secure communications, since messages are transmitted over the network unencrypted and anyone can intercept and read its contents. The proposed security system is intended to provide DHCompliant with a dual security mechanism based on RSA and AES algorithms. The use of these algorithms can influence the performance of the protocol and the present work is focused on describing the real impact of the inclusion of such security mechanisms. Our results show that hiding information in a Smart Home interoperability protocol by the inclusion of a security system is viable and does not imply great consequences in CPU memory consumption.

Pages: 171 to 176

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-165-6

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011