An investigation of the merkle signature scheme (MSS) for cryptographically generated address (CGA) signatures in mobile IPv6
Cryptographically Generated Address (CGA) Signatures are a promising feature of Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and are slowly being considered suitable for signing the Binding Update (BU) message. However, the use of the Rivest- Shamir-Adleman (RSA) by the CGA signature algorithms is considered to be a ve...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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International Journal of Network Security
2014
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/39299/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39299/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39299/1/39299.pdf |
| Summary: | Cryptographically Generated Address (CGA) Signatures
are a promising feature of Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and are
slowly being considered suitable for signing the Binding
Update (BU) message. However, the use of the Rivest-
Shamir-Adleman (RSA) by the CGA signature algorithms
is considered to be a very serious limitation. This is be-
cause RSA provides only limited computational security
and incurs significant performance overhead. This work
investigates the use of an alternative signature scheme
called Merkle Signature Scheme (MSS) for use in the CGA
signature algorithms. The results show that compared to
RSA, MSS provides stronger computational security and
significantly improves the performance of the key genera-
tion and the CGA signature generation operations. |
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