Increase Throughput of CCM Security Mode Using MKP

Zuriati Ahmad Zukarnain

Department of Communication Technology and Networks, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.

DOI: 10.4236/am.2014.54055                

Abstract

A security protocol is used to ensure the messages transferred over a network free from attack. The CCM security operation mode adopts CTR, and CBC-MAC schemes to implement message ciphering and authentication respectively. There are two limitations of CCM including the secret key which should refresh for each 2⁶⁴ blocks in CTR mode and the authentication operation of CBC-MAC works in sequential fashion on multi-processor system. In this paper, we have proved that the Multiple Key Protocol (MKP) can be used within CTR mode to increase the size of the transferred message. Also, we have showed that the DMAC algorithm is able to decrease the time of authentication operation on multi-processing units system.

Keywords

CBC-MAC; CCM; CTR; Message Authentication Throughput; Parallel Message Authentication

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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