SCION: A Secure Internet Architecture

by Adrian Perrig, Pawel Szalachowski, Raphael M. Reischuk, Laurent Chuat

Overview

This book describes the essential components of the SCION secure Internet architecture, the first architecture designed foremost for strong security and high availability. Among its core features, SCION also provides route control, explicit trust information, multipath communication, scalable quality-of-service guarantees, and efficient forwarding. The book includes functional specifications of the network elements, communication prools among these elements, data structures, and configuration files. In particular, the book offers a specification of a working prototype.

The authors provide a comprehensive description of the main design features for achieving a secure Internet architecture. They facilitate the reader throughout, structuring the book so that the technical detail gradually increases, and supporting the text with a glossary, an index, a list of abbreviations, answers to frequently asked questions, and special highlighting for examples and for sections that explain important research, engineering, and deployment features. The book is suitable for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students who are interested in network security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319670799
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/18/2017
Series:	Information Security and Cryptography
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Adrian Perrig is the director of the Network Security Group at ETH Zürich, where Laurent Chuat is a Ph.D. student. Dr. Pawel Szalachowski is an assistant professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, he was previously a member of the ETHZ Network Security Group. Dr. Raphael M. Reischuk works at Zühlke Engineering AG, he was previously a member of the ETHZ Network Security Group.

Table of Contents

Part I: SCION Overview.- Introduction.- Isolation Domains.- Part II: SCION Details.- Network Control Plane.- Network Data Plane.- Authentication.- ISD Coordination.- Name Resolution.- Part III: Analysis and Evaluation.- Security Analysis.- Modeling Energy Consumption of a SCION-Enabled Network.- Part IV: Deployment and Operation.- Deployment.- Operation.- Part V: Low-Level Details.- Packet Formats.- Configuration File Formats.- Cryptographic Algorithms.- Border Router.

Editorial Reviews

This book summarizes many years, almost a decade, of research and development on SCION. The reader is brought up to speed with the current state of the Internet, the threat landscape vs. the underlying networking and routing prools that were designed when the threat landscape was much different. … this is a great book for understanding where we are in today's Internet, and what we need to consider for moving forward.” (Sven Dietrich, Cipher, ieee-security.org, Issue 144, June, 04, 2018)

“The writing is precise and easy to comprehend for those who know the underlying principles. … This book must be included in the essential literature study for researchers formulating problems and comprehending trends related to redesigning the Internet. It is a well-suited reference book for a semester course, with lab work for advanced students of networking/data communication design. … This book does a fantastic job of presenting the SCION team’s decade-long work. For aspiring SCION collaborators, it is a treasure.” (Sundara Nagarajan, Computing Reviews, November, 2018)

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