Abstract:
Secure communication refers to successful and secure interaction among the participants having common intentions in one-to-one or group settings. One-to-one is termed as a decentralized communication environment where any party can initiate the communication. Whereas group is a dynamic environment composed of activities exhibited by individuals in a group where the number of participants are variable. Therefore the level of security in this environment needs to be given utmost importance. Both of the environments require maintaining secrecy of cryptographic keys which is often overlooked. ICMetric is an emerging technology that has gained importance because of its security advantages for embedded system applications. This technology resolves issues of key theft and storage, through the development of device fingerprint that can be used for secure key generation. This research discusses ICMetric in detail by elaborating its salient features. Authors enumerate the current research being carried out on ICMetric technology along with its areas of application. This research elucidates the changes that ICMetric technology has brought to conventional cryptosystem design. This research proposes two state of the art symmetric cryptographic frameworks for the one-to-one and group communication. Both of the frameworks are based on the utilization of the ICMetric technology. Furthermore this research sheds light on the advantages of utilizing the proposed frameworks in a resource constrained environments by performing an in depth security analysis and performance evaluation of the frameworks.
