An Investigation of the Merkle Signature Scheme for Cryptographically Generated Address Signatures in Mobile IPv6

10.6633/IJNS.201505.17(3).10

Sana Qadir；Mohammad Umar Siddiqi；Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed Al-Khateeb

Binding update message ； cryptographically generated address signature ； Merkle signature scheme

International Journal of Network Security

17卷3期（2015 / 05 / 01）

311 - 321

英文

Cryptographically Generated Address (CGA) Signatures are a promising feature of Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and are slowly being considered suitable for signing the Binding Update (BU) message. However, the use of the RivestShamir-Adleman (RSA) by the CGA signature algorithms is considered to be a very serious limitation. This is because RSA provides only limited computational security and incurs significant performance overhead. This work investigates the use of an alternative signature scheme called Merkle Signature Scheme (MSS) for use in the CGA signature algorithms. The results show that compared to RSA, MSS provides stronger computational security and significantly improves the performance of the key generation and the CGA signature generation operations.