Section: New Results

LAKE Standardization

Participants : Malisa Vucinic, Timothy Claeys, Thomas Watteyne.

In October 2019, a new working group was formed in the IETF with the goal of standardizing a lightweight authenticated key exchange protocol for IoT use cases. The group is co-chaired by Malisa Vucinic of Inria-EVA. Through our work in 6TiSCH and the requirements for the follow up work of the “Minimal Security Framework for 6TiSCH”, we directly contributed to the creation of this working group whose expected output is the key exchange protocol for the IoT. The document we lead in the LAKE working group [37] compiles the requirements for a lightweight authenticated key exchange protocol for OSCORE. OSCORE (RFC8613) is a lightweight communication security protocol providing end-to-end security on application layer for constrained IoT settings. It is expected to be deployed with standards and frameworks using CoAP such as 6TiSCH, LPWAN, OMA Specworks LwM2M, Fairhair Alliance and Open Connectivity Foundation.