Mecanismos de seguridad en redes activas sobre arquitectura SARA

Active network technology enables fast deployment of new network services tailored to the specific needs of end users, among others features. Nevertheless security issues still are a main concern when considering the industrial adoption of this technology. In this article we describe SARA (Simple Active Router-Assistant) architecture, an active network platform deployed in the context of the IST-GCAP project, and then consider security requirements detected in this architecture, concerning confidentiality, integrity, authentication, no repudiation and retransmission. Later, we present the security protocol proposed which intents to cover all imposed requirements, and finally we will address implementation perspectives using available technologies such as IPSec and SSL.