Title

A Hierarchical Two-Tier One-Way Hash Chain Protocol For Secure Internet Transactions

Keywords

HTTPS; One-way hash chains; secure Internet transactions; user sessions

Abstract

One-way hash chains are a popular cryptographic technique used in many security applications. In this paper, we present a two-tier one-way hash chain (TTOHC) protocol to secure cookie-based Internet transactions. The use of cookies as a cheaper alternative to secure Internet sessions is extremely dangerous since session cookies can be easily sniffed out resulting in session hijacking. By utilizing different cryptographic hash functions arranged in two tiers, our hierarchical TTOHC protocol gives significant performance improvement over previously proposed solutions for securing Internet cookies. A detailed Java testbed has been used to evaluate alternative configurations for the hierarchical scheme and investigate the optimal set up of the two tiers. Detailed performance results obtained from this testbed are presented and analyzed. © 2012 IEEE.

Publication Date

12-1-2012

Publication Title

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Number of Pages

868-873

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503222

Socpus ID

84877683781 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84877683781

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