A Person-Oriented Ubiquitous and Secure Information Communication Environment Supported by Data-Driven Networking Processor

This paper proposes a basic concept of person-oriented ubiquitous and secure information sharing environment. In the ubiquitous network environment, people, within a predefined restriction, can access and use information, network and computing resources wherever and whenever they are. Here, the owner of the resource and/or information is not necessarily same as the user. At the same time, the user specific information does exist which is owned by the user itself but often managed by other organization. So the secure and safe resource management is required. We propose two approaches for consolidating the ubiquitous and secure information sharing platform, one is right-token management platform and the other is use of objective-specific VPN. We also propose to use a data-driven networking processor as a hardware platform supporting above resource and data management platform layers, which has in nature the passiveness and high real-time multi-processing capability. We propose to use it as engines for continuous authentication and enciphering at the terminal side and communication protocol handlers, authentication and enciphering in the network. keywords: authentication, ubiquitous services, information sharing, VPN, data-driven processor