| 摘要 |
Methods of content-centric networking, a client, a server and computer program products are disclosed. A method of establishing a secure session for transfer of a stream of data packets between a client and a server of a content-centric network comprises the steps of: exchanging a first namespace portion indication between the server and the client; deriving a first namespace portion from the first namespace portion indication; incorporating the first namespace portion into a first namespace of a first request from the client to the server for a first data packet of the stream of data packets; deriving a subsequent namespace portion, the subsequent namespace portion being based on transfer of the first data packet, the subsequent namespace portion differing from the first namespace portion; and incorporating the subsequent namespace portion into a subsequent namespace of a subsequent request from the client to the server for a subsequent data packet of the stream of data packets. In this way, the namespace of each data packet changes and is related to the previous data packets such that the namespaces daisy-chain from one to the other, without the need for any additional authentication needing to take place between the two nodes when transferring a subsequent data packet. As long as both the client and the server derives the correct namespace for each subsequent data packet, it can be assumed that the session between the client and the server is still secure, which significantly improves performance whilst maintaining security. |
