LOW-COST SECURITY USING WELL-DEFINED MESSAGES

摘要

Well-defined messages may be transmitted from a sending device to a recipient device in order to reduce the processing and resource requirements imposed by the security semantics of general message standards. The well-defined messages may include an expression of a collective intent of the security semantics included in the message. The expression of the security semantics within the message simplifies the discovery process for devices processing the message. The well-defined message may also require that any intermediary devices that process the well-defined message as it is transmitted from the sender device to the receiver device follow the expressed collective intent of the security semantics. If an intermediary device cannot understand or adhere to the expressed intent, the well-defined message must be rejected.