Security strategy for US Air Force to use commercial data link

Author

Roy, Aloke

Author_Institution

SAR Tech. Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Abstract

The ACARS data link security strategy presented in this paper is based on internationally accepted cryptographic standards. The proposed algorithms were approved by NSA for US government use. The use of standards and the PKI infrastructure will reduce the implementation cost due to the availability of COTS software and components. The proposed strategy will satisfy the authentication, cryptographic data integrity, and encryption needs of the USAF. It will permit the USAF to use a commercially available technology now for most of its command and control applications for air transport, thereby conserving scarce military communication resources for tactical applications

Keywords

aircraft communication; command and control systems; cryptography; military aircraft; military communication; ACARS; Aircraft Communications and Reporting System; PKI infrastructure; US Air Force; USAF; authentication; command and control applications; commercial data link; cryptographic standards; data integrity; data link security strategy; implementation cost; military communication resources; Application software; Authentication; Availability; Command and control systems; Costs; Cryptography; Data security; Military communication; Software standards; US Government;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2000. Proceedings. DASC. The 19th

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2000.884940

Filename

884940