par Van Bulck, Jo;Noorman, Job;Mühlberg, Jan Tobias ;Piessens, Frank
Référence 9th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference, WISTP 2015(August 24-25, 2015: Heraklion, Crete, Greece), Information Security Theory and Practice, Lecture notes in computer science (9311), page (71–87)
Publication Publié, 2015
Publication dans des actes
Résumé : Low-end embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) are becoming increasingly important for our lives. They are being used in domains such as infrastructure management, and medical and healthcare systems, where business interests and our security and privacy are at stake. Yet, security mechanisms have been appallingly neglected on many IoT platforms. In this paper we present a secure access control mechanism for extremely lightweight embedded microcontrollers. Being based on Sancus, a hardware-only Trusted Computing Base and Protected Module Architecture for the embedded domain, our mechanism allows for multiple software modules on an IoT-node to securely share resources. We implement and evaluate our approach for two application scenarios, a shared memory system and a shared flash drive. Our implementation is based on a Sancus-enabled TI MSP430 microcontroller. We show that our mechanism can give high security guarantees at small runtime overheads and a moderately increased size of the Trusted Computing Base.