Towards Secure Information-centric Naming

The predominant usage of the Internet for content retrieval has lead to a new communication paradigm called information-centric networking (ICN). In this paradigm, the main concern is to fetch content from the network without the explicit knowledge where the content, or its copy, is currently located. Although the migration to the ICN paradigm is already taking place, the underlying naming system and security are still bound to the end-to-end paradigm. In this paper we present a new secure information-centric naming system aiming at explicit trust establish between content providers and consumers and we also discuss some implications and opportunities of this new paradigm.