Presenter: Braden Hollembaek
Mentor: Kevin Butler
Poster: 18
Major: Computer Science
With large-scale attacks occurring at alarming frequency, the current state of Internet routing security has proven to be inadequate. Various security modifications to the current protocols have been proposed to help mitigate this problem, but none have seen widespread support or adoption due, in part, to the lack of investigative research on the high demands of bandwidth and cryptographic processing power required by these protocols. The purpose of this study is to provide the critical and independent analysis necessary to determine the feasibility and effect of deploying secure routing protocols across the highest levels of the Internet. By creating software capable of simulating all of the world’s routing traffic, we are able to analyze the additional bandwidth consumed by multiple secure protocols as well as increased load placed on the CPUs. As the research progresses, we will be comparing various secure protocol specifications to determine which security features are the best candidates for adoption and which are not well-suited for use at Internet scale. Based on their efficiency for real-world deployment while not compromising their security, we will be able to make strong recommendations on which protocol suite will be the most practical for implementation going forward.