SCION: A Secure Internet Architecture

This book describes the essential components of the SCION security architecture for the Internet, the first architecture primarily designed for strong security and high availability. Core functions of SCION include route control, explicit trust information, multipath communication, scalable quality guarantees, and efficient forwarding. The book contains functional specifications of the network elements, communication protocols between these elements, data structures, and configuration files. In particular, it provides a specification of a working prototype. The authors offer a comprehensive description of the key design features to achieve a secure Internet architecture. They guide the reader through the book by structuring it so that the technical details increase gradually, and they support the text with a glossary, an index, a list of abbreviations, answers to frequently asked questions, as well as special highlights for examples and sections that explain important research, engineering, and implementation features. The book is suitable for researchers, practitioners, and doctoral students interested in network security.