Optical network security: technical analysis of fiber tapping mechanisms and methods for detection and prevention

Shaneman, K.; Gray, S.

doi:10.1109/milcom.2004.1494884

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“…To gain mid-span access to the fiber, the eavesdropper has to cut through and strip away the cable's outer jacket to access the individual fibers in its center. Once this is done, the eavesdropper has several ways to tap the optical signal, including fiber bending, optical splitting, evanescent coupling, V-groove cut, and optical scattering [5].…”

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Attack-aware planning of transparent optical networks

Manousakis

Ellinas

2016

Optical Switching and Networking

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Attack-aware planning of transparent optical networks

Manousakis

Ellinas

2016

Optical Switching and Networking

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“…Since the interconnection network cables are often exposed to the outside of the system to connect multiple nodes packaged in one or several racks, they are vulnerable to the eavesdropping attack. Even optical networks are vulnerable to the attack through a simple fiber optic splitter or coupler [20]. To make servers resistant to this attack, it is necessary to provide the confidentiality service where all communications from processors are encrypted.…”

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Fast Secure Communications in Shared Memory Multiprocessor Systems

Lee

Ahn

Kim

2011

IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst.

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Protection and security are becoming essential requirements in commercial servers. To provide secure memory and cache-to-cache communications, we presented Interconnect-Independent Security Enhanced Shared Memory Multiprocessor System (I 2 SEMS), mainly focusing on how to manage a global counter to encrypt, decrypt, and authenticate data messages with little performance overhead. However, I 2 SEMS was vulnerable to replay attacks on data messages and integrity attacks on control and counter messages. This paper proposes three authentication schemes to remove those security vulnerabilities. First, we prevent replay attacks on data messages by inserting Request Counter (RC) into request messages. Second, we also use RC to detect integrity attacks on control messages. Third, we propose a new counter, referred to as GCC Counter (GC), to protect the global counter messages. We simulated our design with SPLASH-2 benchmarks on up to 16-processor shared memory multiprocessor systems by using Simics with Wisconsin multifacet General Execution-driven Multiprocessor Simulator (GEMS). Simulation results show that the overall performance slowdown is 4 percent on average with the highest keystream hit rate of 78 percent.

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“…The data transmitted via copper cables is highly insecure when compared to fiber optic communication. In some situations, the attacker accesses to the fiber cable and easily taps the data [3]. When the attacker utilizes a laptop, customized software, optical tap and an opto-electronic converter, then the attack will be not be easily identified.…”

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An Enhanced Advanced Encryption Standard (Eaes) Algorithm for Secure Fiber Optic Communication

Alapatt¹,

Kavitha²

2018

ijarcs

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Fiber optic communication is a part of optical communication where the data is transmitted and received via optical cables. It is widely used due to its advantages over traditional communication systems. Security is considered as a main concern in any communication systems. Since fiber optics transfers data efficiently for longer distances, an end to end secured fiber optic communication is very difficult. Advanced encryption Standard (AES) is a symmetrical encryption algorithm which founds to be more secure, faster and stronger where tapping of data is not quite easy. As the cyber attacks are continuously developing, AES algorithm is broken by some attacks namely brute force, differential, algebraic and linear attacks. To overcome the limitations of AES algorithm, a new enhanced AES algorithm abbreviated as EAES algorithm is proposed for secured fiber optic communication. EAES differs from AES algorithm in two ways: Dynamic Key Generation and Dynamic s-box generation. It increases the complexity to break the encryption process and also makes it more difficult for the attacker to hack the data. The proposed EAES algorithm is simulated and the results are analyzed in terms of throughput and conversion time. The results show that the EAES method attains higher end to end security in fiber optic communication.

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Optical network security: technical analysis of fiber tapping mechanisms and methods for detection and prevention

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Attack-aware planning of transparent optical networks

Attack-aware planning of transparent optical networks

Fast Secure Communications in Shared Memory Multiprocessor Systems

An Enhanced Advanced Encryption Standard (Eaes) Algorithm for Secure Fiber Optic Communication

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