Delica: Decentralized Lightweight Collective Attestation for Disruptive IoT Networks

Abstract

The recent advance of the Internet of Things and autonomous systems brings massive security threats to the network of low-end embedded devices. Remote attestation is a hardware-assisted technique to verify the integrity and trustworthiness of software on remote devices. The recently proposed collective remote attestations have focused on attesting to the highly dynamic and disruptive device networks. However, they are generally inefficient due to the homogeneous node setting for the robustness of attestation reports aggregation. In this work, we propose Delica, an efficient and robust collective attestation framework for dynamic and disruptive networks. We differentiate the role of provers and aggregators to limit the redundant communications and attestation evidence aggregations for efficiency. Delica is capable of mitigating DoS attacks and detecting physical and black-hole attacks. The experimental results and analysis show that Delica can greatly reduce the per-node computational cost and reduce the network attestation cost by over 75% compared with the state-of-the-art approaches on disruptive networks.