README.md

NAC (Name-based Access Control over NDN)

This is a refactored version of NAC by Zhiyi Zhang ([email protected]). The new NAC decouples the application scenarios and the library functionality.

The library has two main parts:

• Crypto support part (./src/crypto)

  • RSA support (depend on ndn-cxx)
  • AES_CBC support (depend on ndn-cxx)

• NAC functionality (./src)

  • Owner: generate E-KEY (producers use E-KEY to generate encrypted Content) and D-KEY (consumers use D-KEY to decrypt content)
  • Producer: generate encrypted content Data packets
  • Consumer: consume content Data packets

Install and Compile NAC

1. Clone the github repo

git clone https://github.com/Zhiyi-Zhang/NAC.git

2. Compile from source

cd NAC
./waf configure
./waf

In the ./waf configure step, the script will check all the required dependencies. If any dependency is missing, please install the dependency first and redo the ./waf configure.

All the dependencies are listed here:

• ndn-cxx
• BOOST (Given that ndn-cxx also depends on BOOST, thus if you successfully install the ndn-cxx, then you are all set :D )

3. Install the library

./waf install

Use NAC

Link NAC when you compile your code. After perform ./waf install described in the last section, you can directly use pkg-config to link the NAC library.

CFLAGS+= `pkg-config --cflags nac`
LDFLAGS+= `pkg-config --libs nac`

All functions in Owner, Producer, Consumer classes are well commented, so have fun :D.

Bug Report

You can send a email to me ([email protected])