Securing the MAVLink Communication Protocol for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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Unmanned aircraft systems are gaining popularity in commercial and government applications. This, however, makes these systems susceptible to security attacks. This paper overviews some of the security considerations in unmanned aircraft systems and details an encryption protocol implementation. Because encryption can be very expensive in computational resources and battery consumption, an efficient and secure mechanism is developed that minimizes overhead using RC5 encryption on the existing communication protocol.
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