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Can I read Server Location Verification (SLV) and Server Location Pinning: Augmenting TLS Authentication on EtoBox?
Server Location Verification (SLV) and Server Location Pinning: Augmenting TLS Authentication by Abdelrahman Abdou; P. C. Van Oorschot is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Server Location Verification (SLV) and Server Location Pinning: Augmenting TLS Authentication about?
We introduce the first known mechanism providing realtime server location verification. Its uses include enhancing server authentication by enabling browsers to automatically interpret server location information. We describe the design of this new measurement-based technique, Server Location Verification (SLV), and evaluate it using PlanetLab. We explain how SLV is compatible with the increasing trends of geographically distributed content dissemination over the Internet, without causing any new interoperability conflicts. Additionally, we introduce the notion of (verifiable) __server location pinning__ (conceptually similar to certificate pinning) to support SLV, and evaluate their combined impact using a server-authentication evaluation framework. The results affirm the addition of new security benefits to the existing TLS-based authentication mechanisms. We implement SLV through a location verification service, the simplest version of which requires no server-side changes. We also implement a simple browser extension that interacts seamlessly with the verification infrastructure to obtain realtime server location-verification results.
Who reads Server Location Verification (SLV) and Server Location Pinning: Augmenting TLS Authentication?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.
- Author
- Abdelrahman Abdou; P. C. Van Oorschot
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)