Mobile App to SGX Enclave Secure Channel

in 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (2020, February 13)

The current challenge for several applications is to guarantee the user’s privacy when using personal data. The broader problem is to transfer and process the data without exposing the sensitive content ... [more ▼]

The current challenge for several applications is to guarantee the user’s privacy when using personal data. The broader problem is to transfer and process the data without exposing the sensitive content to anyone, including the service provider(s). In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing a protocol to combine secure frameworks in order to exchange and process sensitive data, i.e. respecting user’s privacy. Our contribution is a protocol to perform a secure exchange of data between a mobile application and a trusted execution environment. In our experiments we show independent implementations of our protocol using three different encryption modes (i.e., CBC, ECB, GCM encryption). Our results support the feasibility and importance of an end-to-end secure channel protocol. [less ▲]

Deep dive into Interledger: Understanding the Interledger ecosystem - Part 3

Learning material (2019)

At the technical level, the goal of Interledger is to provide an architecture and a minimal set of protocols to enable interoperability for any value transfer system. The Interledger protocol is literally ... [more ▼]

At the technical level, the goal of Interledger is to provide an architecture and a minimal set of protocols to enable interoperability for any value transfer system. The Interledger protocol is literally a protocol for interledger payments. To understand how is it possible to achieve this goal, several aspects of the technology require a deeper analysis. For this reason, in our journey to become knowledgeable and active contributor we decided to create our own test-bed on our premises. By doing so, we noticed that some aspects are well documented but we found that others might need more attention and clarification. Despite a large community effort, the task to keep information on a fast evolving software ecosystem is tedious and not always the priority for such a project. Therefore, the purpose of this document is to guide, through several hands-on activities, community members who want to engage at different levels. The document consolidates all the relevant information from generating a simple payment to ultimately create a test-bed with the Interledger protocol suite between Ripple and other distributed ledger technology. [less ▲]

Deep dive into Interledger: Understanding the Interledger ecosystem - Part 1

Learning material (2019)

At the technical level, the goal of Interledger is to provide an architecture and a minimal set of protocols to enable interoperability for any value transfer system. The Interledger protocol is literally ... [more ▼]

At the technical level, the goal of Interledger is to provide an architecture and a minimal set of protocols to enable interoperability for any value transfer system. The Interledger protocol is literally a protocol for interledger payments. To understand how is it possible to achieve this goal, several aspects of the technology require a deeper analysis. For this reason, in our journey to become knowledgeable and active contributor we decided to create our own test-bed on our premises. By doing so, we noticed that some aspects are well documented but we found that others might need more attention and clarification. Despite a large community effort, the task to keep information on a fast evolving software ecosystem is tedious and not always the priority for such a project. Therefore, the purpose of this document is to guide, through several hands-on activities, community members who want to engage at different levels. The document consolidates all the relevant information from generating a simple payment to ultimately create a test-bed with the Interledger protocol suite between Ripple and other distributed ledger technology. [less ▲]

Opportunity to Leverage Information-as-an-Asset in the IoT -- The road ahead

in 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (2015, August 24)

In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. Two hundred and fifty years after the start of the Industrial ... [more ▼]

In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. Two hundred and fifty years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, this pattern of activity plays out every day, especially in a connected world where products are no longer one-and-done. Making money is not anymore limited to physical product sales and other revenue streams become possible after the initial product sale, which are service-based information and knowledge in today's IoT (including subscriptions and apps, new analytics for cognitive capabilities...). While information and knowledge are the "new oil" of the IoT era, it nonetheless remains challenging to perceive and extract the real value of those assets, as information is not as tangible and concrete as physical assets. In this respect, this paper introduces the major "laws of information" and discusses how these laws can be leveraged to their full extend thanks to the IoT possibilities. Further, the paper discusses the key challenges that remain to be addressed in today's IoT to concretize such laws. Finally, a set of real-life business use cases identified by the Open Platform 3.0TM Forum are presented from the information law perspectives. [less ▲]