The standard Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a lightweight, web-transfer protocol based on the REST paradigm and specifically suitable for constrained devices and the Internet-of-Things. Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environment (OSCORE) is a standard, lightweight security protocol that provides end-to-end protection of CoAP messages. A number of methods exist for managing keying material for OSCORE, as to its establishment and update. This paper provides a detailed comparison of such methods, in terms of their features, limitations and security properties. Also, it especially considers the new key update protocol KUDOS, for which it provides a more extended discussion about its features and mechanics, as well as a formal verification of its security properties.
This work was partly supported by the H2020 projectSIFIS-Home (Grant agreement 952652), the SSF projectSEC4Factory (Grant agreement RIT17-0032), and the H2020project ARCADIAN-IoT (Grant agreement 101020259).