OpenHouse: A Secure Platform for Distributed Home Services

Jani Suomalainen; Seamus Moloney; Juha Koivisto; Kari Keinänen

doi:10.1109/PST.2008.11

OpenHouse: A Secure Platform for Distributed Home Services

Jani Suomalainen
, Seamus Moloney
, Juha Koivisto
, Kari Keinänen

Nokia Research Center

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

A large amount of versatile services are emerging as home networks and devices are opened for different manufacturers and service developers.
With this complexity comes a need to make these services more personalized and secure. However, at the same time, the home network should be easy to manage for non-expert users. In this paper, we propose OpenHouse, a TLS based distributed security architecture for use in home networks.
We have adopted a fine-grained role and domain based authorization model and studied how the configuration burden for end users can be minimized by classifying services in a security relevant manner and providing homes with default security policies. We evaluated the feasibility of the proposal by implementing a secured UPnP based platform on Nokia N800 Internet tablet and Gumstix low-end Linux devices.
We report the implications the approach has for developers and for end user experience as well as the challenges it still faces.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	6th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2008
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	15-23
ISBN (Print)	978-0-7695-3390-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PST.2008.11
Publication status	Published - 2008
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	Sixth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2008 - Fredericton, NB, Canada Duration: 1 Oct 2008 → 3 Oct 2008

Conference

Conference	Sixth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2008
Abbreviated title	PST 2008
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Fredericton, NB
Period	1/10/08 → 3/10/08

Keywords

security architecture
home networks
role-based access control
ease of use
TLS
UPnP

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Suomalainen, J, Moloney, S, Koivisto, J & Keinänen, K 2008, OpenHouse: A Secure Platform for Distributed Home Services. in Proceedings: 6th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2008. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 15-23, Sixth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2008, Fredericton, NB, Canada, 1/10/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/PST.2008.11

OpenHouse: A Secure Platform for Distributed Home Services. / Suomalainen, Jani; Moloney, Seamus; Koivisto, Juha et al.
Proceedings: 6th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2008. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2008. p. 15-23.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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