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IoT: Where is the source of Trust?



As I mentioned earlier, the one of problem that IoT will be fundamentally different from everything we had dealt before. One example, the trust in the current network is based on digital certificates are issued by the hierarchy of Certificate Authorities. Basically, each CA maintains two data sets: one for valid certificates and one for revoked certificates. While number of issued certificates is limited the whole system of trust somehow works, the revoke lists are relatively short and the traffic for validation of certificate is small. Now, just scale everything to the magnitude of IoT, how it will look like?
The problem seems to be too complex, to process everything on the edge or in the sensor space and it means mainly that “The Everything” need to be partitioned by a cost on the transmission a single data bit and some dimensional or space boundaries...

N.B. Pandora's Box of IPv6 has not been opened yet.
 
 

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