Non-repudiation Service Implementation Using Host Identity Protocol

Abstract

New types of service usages emerge every day in the Internet. Service usage could be Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) usage or watching a streamed movie. Many of these services are commercial, so payment is often involved in the service usage, which increases the risk of fraud or other misbehaviour in the interaction. To enhance the secu-rity of both service providers and service users, improvements are needed to the existing procedures. The non-repudiable service usage procedure was developed as part of the TIVIT Future Internet SHOK -project. In this model, the service user and the service provider are bound to the actual service usage with certificates. The charging of the service usage is done using hash chains which are bound to the certificates. Now the service user pays only for the service he or she gets. Time or traffic based charging scheme can be used in the service usage. Evidence is gathered from the service usage to help solve possible conflicts afterwards. An actual implementation based on this model was made using Host Identity Protocol for Linux and RADIUS protocol. RADIUS protocol was used to gather the created evidence of the service usage. The implementation was developed for Linux using C-language. The goal of the implementation was to evaluate the concept in actual use. Performance of the implementation was measured with various real use scenarios to evaluate the feasibility of the implementation. Results indicated that the performance of the model is sufficient to serve several simultaneous users. However, the architecture of Host Identity Protocol for Linux caused some performance issues in the implementation.