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Content Centric Networking (CCN) is a new communication architecture built on named data, created to optimize network resources and ensure greater security. Due to its new architecture, CCN has several open security and privacy concerns. Today’s internet creates an encrypted end-to-end connection rather than securing content because content are opaque to the network. On the other hand, because of its separation from location, CCN claims to secure the content rather than the connection. In order to build trust between content providers and clients, content must be authenticated and integrity-protected. Since CCN relies on public key cryptography to protect confidentiality of the data and checking integrity and authentication processes, the public key management becomes a crucial issue for CCN security. In this paper, we address the security challenges related to key management, we propose a Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure (DPKI) used with Blockchain to counter the disadvantages of using a centralized authority (CA) and to build content-based security mechanisms used for securely distributing content in CCN.
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Labbi, M., Kannouf, N., Chahid, Y., Benabdellah, M., Azizi, A. (2019). Blockchain-Based PKI for Content-Centric Networking. In: Ben Ahmed, M., Boudhir, A., Younes, A. (eds) Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Edition 2. SCA 2018. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11196-0_54
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