Secure Mobile Networking Project

Before our project very little work had been done to integrate security and network-layer mobility into real systems that tackle the issues of secure enclaves. The work that we have undertaken results in the development of a high performance Secure Mobile Network and insights into its use as part of the National Information Infrastructure. Our goals have included tight integration of Mobile-IP and IPSEC so that (almost ...) all packets originating from a Mobile-IP wireless node can be protected under an IPSEC umbrella, be the Mobile Node at home, or away. We have also investigated other security, redundancy and wireless network reliability issues, with the overall goal of developing a system with multiple security defense and redundancy mechanisms. This has included several generations of ad hoc routing protocols, redundant Home Agents, old Wavelan (non-IEEE) drivers, wireless signal strength caching in new Linux and BSD drivers and other ideas and technologies. See below for more information.
This project, originally funded by DARPA, has been underway since July 1995. At this point in time, work continues under the direction of Jim Binkley and Suresh Singh . Please see Suresh Singh's software download page for recent work from Suresh including ATCP, SACK, and FACK FreeBSD ports.
The PSU CS department has a new security effort with a group of cooperating faculty. Please see PSU Center for Information Assurance (PSUCIA) for the new page on our information assurance center.
Current Secure Mobile Network work includes: improving the adapatibility of our Mobile-IP implementation on ipaq/linux, and FreeBSD. and further investigation of how to integrate KAME BSD IPSEC and PSU Mobile-IP.