Programmable Name Obfuscation Framework for Controlling Privacy and Performance on CCN

Abstract

Consumer privacy leakage from data names poses a serious threat to Content-Centric Networking (CCN) networks. Obfuscating names is a promising countermeasure, and anonymizers with deterministic encryption schemes have been proposed to provide data privacy while enabling CCN features, such as in-network caching. Existing studies assume a weak threat model in which anonymizers are honest, and their obfuscation schemes are not resilient against privacy attacks such as name guessing attacks. This paper designs a name obfuscation framework based on the realistic assumption that anonymizers are semi-honest. The framework strengthens data privacy using multiple keys and separates obfuscation for prefixes and suffixes, and is implemented on a P4 switch to provide Tbps forwarding speed.