Type of Publication: Article in Collected Edition

Invited - Things, Trouble, Trust: On Building Trust in IoT Systems

Author(s):

Abera, Tigist; Asokan, Nadarajah; Davi, Lucas; Koushanfar, Farinaz; Praverd, Andrew; Tsudik, Gene; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza

Title of Anthology:

Proc. of 53rd Design Automation Conference (DAC)

Publication Date:

2016

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

doi:10.1145/2897937.2905020

Link to complete version:

https://dl.acm.org/authorize?N28656

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Abstract

The emerging and much-touted Internet of Things (IoT) presents a variety of security and privacy challenges. Prominent among them is the establishment of trust in remote IoT devices, which is typically attained via remote attestation, a distinct security service that aims to ascertain the current state of a potentially compromised remote device. Remote attestation ranges from relatively heavy-weight secure hardware-based techniques, to light-weight software-based ones, and also includes approaches that blend software (e.g., control-flow integrity) and hardware features (e.g., PUFs). In this paper, we survey the landscape of state-of-the-art attestation techniques from the IoT device perspective and argue that most of them have a role to play in IoT trust establishment.