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How Little is Enough? Implementation and Evaluation of a Lightweight Secure Firmware Update Process for the Internet of Things

Topics: Algorithms, software engineering and development; Data security, data recovery, disaster recovery; Encryption (all aspects); Energy Efficiency; Experiments of using security solutions and proof-of-concepts; Performance Evaluation and Modeling ; Security, Privacy and Trust ; Software Architecture and Middleware ; Trust and privacy

Authors: Silvie Schmidt 1 ; Mathias Tausig 1 ; Manuel Koschuch 1 ; Matthias Hudler 1 ; Georg Simhandl 2 ; Patrick Puddu 3 and Zoran Stojkovic 3

Affiliations: 1 University of Applied Sciences, Austria ; 2 Adaptiva GmbH, Austria ; 3 Embed-IT GmbH, Austria

Keyword(s): Bootloader, Firmware Update, Security, Internet of Things, Performance Evaluation, RIOT-OS, Cryptography, AES, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, ECDSA, Cortex M0+.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Energy Efficiency ; Energy Efficiency and Green Manufacturing ; Industrial Engineering ; Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics ; Obstacles ; Sensor Networks

Abstract: With an ever growing number of devices connecting to each other and to the Internet (usually subsumed under the ”Internet-of-Things” moniker), new challenges arise in terms of keeping these devices safe, secure and usable. Against better judegment, a large number of such devices never gets updated after being deployed, be it from negligence, inconvenience or sheer technical challenges. And all that while a plethora of valid approaches already exists for secure wireless remote update processes for such devices. In this work, we present another approach to solve this problem, with a special focus on the ease of integration into existing systems: we try to provide the absolute bare minimum to enable a secure over-the-air update process, analyze the security of this approach, and evaluate the performance impact of the implementation. We show that our solution can deal with nearly 80% of the identified threats, with a negligible impact on practical performance in terms of processing power and energy consumption. (More)

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Schmidt, S.; Tausig, M.; Koschuch, M.; Hudler, M.; Simhandl, G.; Puddu, P. and Stojkovic, Z. (2018). How Little is Enough? Implementation and Evaluation of a Lightweight Secure Firmware Update Process for the Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - IoTBDS; ISBN 978-989-758-296-7; ISSN 2184-4976, SciTePress, pages 63-72. DOI: 10.5220/0006670300630072

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title={How Little is Enough? Implementation and Evaluation of a Lightweight Secure Firmware Update Process for the Internet of Things},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - IoTBDS},
year={2018},
pages={63-72},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006670300630072},
isbn={978-989-758-296-7},
issn={2184-4976},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - IoTBDS
TI - How Little is Enough? Implementation and Evaluation of a Lightweight Secure Firmware Update Process for the Internet of Things
SN - 978-989-758-296-7
IS - 2184-4976
AU - Schmidt, S.
AU - Tausig, M.
AU - Koschuch, M.
AU - Hudler, M.
AU - Simhandl, G.
AU - Puddu, P.
AU - Stojkovic, Z.
PY - 2018
SP - 63
EP - 72
DO - 10.5220/0006670300630072
PB - SciTePress