[Ndn-interest] Sending NACKs with ndn-cpp

[Cesar Ghali]

Hi Jeff,

That's right, untrusted NACKs should not be accepted in the network. In
fact a pre-arranged trusted channel is an approach proposed in the paper I
shared before.

Cesar

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 08:45 Thompson, Jeff <jefft0 at remap.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Hi Cesar,
>
> So in Junxiao’s example, the microcontroller would send an unsigned
> network Nack? Will forwarders be configured to respond to an unsigned Nack
> which comes from the (supposed) direction from any application? (I had
> though that these network signalling messages are send between forwarders
> on a pre-arranged trusted channel.)
>
> - Jeff T
>
> From: Cesar Ghali <cghali at uci.edu>
> Date: Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 8:29:00
> To: Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>, Jeff Thompson <
> jefft0 at remap.ucla.edu>
> Cc: "ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu" <ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Ndn-interest] Sending NACKs with ndn-cpp
>
> That's right, mixing network and application NACKs is not a good idea.
> From a security perspective, this separation is discussed in details in:
>
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7288477/
>
> Cesar
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 16:07 Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi JeffT
>>
>> I have a temperature sensor based on ESP8266 microcontroller. It uses
>> ndn-cpp-lite, connects to a remote forwarder over TCP, and acts as a
>> producer.
>> The ESP8266, clocked at 80MHz, has limited signing capability. It can
>> sign or verify 8 ECDSA signatures per second.
>> If Interests are arriving too fast, I want to be able to send a
>> NetworkNack-Congestion so that the remote forwarder can forward less
>> Interests to the sensor.
>> An application Nack cannot fulfill this purpose because it still requires
>> a signature. Allowing the Interests to time out increases overhead at the
>> remote forwarder because PIT entries stay longer.
>>
>> Yours, Junxiao
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Thompson, Jeff <jefft0 at remap.ucla.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Matteo.
>>>
>>> A NetworkNack is a ³network² nack because it is generated by a forwarder
>>> in the network, such as NFD. A client library like ndn-cpp is meant to be
>>> used by an application which does not generate network-level messages. It
>>> is called a ³network² nack to distinguish from an ³application² nack. Can
>>> you describe the situation where your application needs to generate a
>>> nack?
>>>
>>> - Jeff T
>>>
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