An Embedding the Domestic Cryptographic Protocol in Linux Kernnel TCP/IP Stack

Student: Efimov Aleksandr

Faculty: HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE)

Educational Programme: Cyber Security (Specialist)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2020

FIOT is a domestic protocol which establishes a secure communication between two subscribers over an insecure communication channel using subscriber authentication and transmitted information confidentiality and integrity. This paper describes Linux kernel TCP/IP stack structure and the methods of protocol embedding in Linux kernel network subsystem. Also it proposes the way to implement FIOT protocol transport part as kernel module with working correctness validation of the resulting implementation.

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