Attacks on the secure SSM architecture proposed at ICON 2002

Author

Ang, Mei-Chiun ; Phah, R.C.-W.

Author_Institution

Inf. Security Res. Lab., Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Kuching, Malaysia

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

16-19 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

304

Abstract

The source specific multicast (SSM) model is a collection of approaches standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to optimize the communication used by multimedia applications involving several participants. At ICON2002, it was highlighted that the SSM does not cater to security services such as access control and content provider protection and hence a variant called the Secure SSM (S-SSM) was proposed. In this paper, we present attacks on the S-SSM and hence show that the security that it provides is still insufficient. We also suggest some countermeasures to increase its security.

Keywords

Internet; authorisation; message authentication; multicast communication; multimedia communication; ICON2002; IETF; Internet Engineering Task Force; S-SSM; multimedia application; secure SSM; source specific multicast; Access control; Application software; Communication standards; Information security; Multimedia communication; Protection; Streaming media; Subscriptions; Videoconference; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2004. (ICON 2004). Proceedings. 12th IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1531-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8783-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2004.1409152

Filename

1409152