PION: Password-based IoT Onboarding Over Named Data Networking

This library implements a secure device onboarding protocol for Named Data Networking using SPAKE2 and NDNCERT. It contains three components corresponding to the roles defined in the protocol: device, authenticator, certificate authority.

This software is developed at the Smart Connected Systems Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is completed and will see occasional maintenance updates.

If you use PION in your research, please cite the PION paper instead of this GitHub repository:

• Davide Pesavento, Junxiao Shi, Kerry McKay, and Lotfi Benmohamed. "PION: Password-based IoT Onboarding Over Named Data Networking," ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2022, pp. 1070-1075, doi: 10.1109/ICC45855.2022.9839088.

Documentation

• Protocol specification
• Installation guide
• Experiment system setup
• Firmware size measurement