fived: A Session Layer Design to Secure the Internet

Published as Working-group on Applied Security & Privacy Technical Report UCSC-WASP-15-01.

Abstract

This technical report outlines the design of fived. An ongoing project to bring features currently implemented in the application layer of the Internet into the core network stack. These features would traditionally describe OSI 7-layer model's session layer. This design would have the greatest impact on the security and flexibility of our networks.

Publication date:
November 2015

Authors:
D J Capelis

Projects:
Secure Networks

Available media

Full paper text: PDF

Bibtex entry

@techreport{wasptr-15-01,
  author       = {D J Capelis},
  title        = {fived: A Session Layer Design to Secure the Internet},
  institution  = {University of California, Santa Cruz},
  number       = {UCSC-WASP-15-01},
  month        = nov,
  year         = {2015},
}