OpenHouse: a Secure Platform for Distributed Home Services

A large amount of versatile services are emerging as home networks and device are opened for different manufacturers and service developers. With this, complexity conies a need to make these services more personalized and secure. However, at the same time, the home network should be easy to manage for nonexpert users. In this paper, we propose OpenHouse, a TLS based distributed security architecture for use in home networks. We, have adopted a fine-grained role and domain based authorization model and studied how the configuration burden for end Users can be minimized by, classifying services in a security relevant manner and providing homes with default security policies. We evaluated the feasibility of the proposal by implementing a secured UPnP based platform on Nokia N800 Internet tablet and Gumstix low-end Linux devices. We report the implications the approach has for developers and for end user experience as well as the challenges it still faces.