OWASP TASC Framework Project

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TASC Framework Project
Things Authentication and Secure Communications

Makers, professionally or as hobbyists, are creating "Internet of Things" (IoT) devices using low power systems such as Arduino. Security is often an afterthought or not considered at all. This project will make it easy to secure communications between devices.

Using an AES library such as: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=88890.0 This project will put a communications protocol and medium agnostic encryption and authentication layer onto resource constrained devices such as the Arduino. It will do this via symmetric key encryption of the message payloads to ensure the authentication, integrity, and confidentiality of messages.

The use of this framework will require no specialist security knowledge.

Description
The TASC Framework (Things Authentication and Secure Communications) provides a lightweight abstracted security framework and supporting libraries to provide authentication and secure communications on resource constrained systems. For example developers creating "Internet of Things" (IoT) devices using low power or resource constrained systems such as Arduino.

Licensing
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'''The OWASP Security Principles are free to use. In fact it is encouraged!!! '' Additionally, I also encourage you to contribute back to the project. I have no monopoly on this knowledge; however, we all have pieces of this knowledge from our experience. Let's begin by putting our individual pieces together to make something great. Great things happen when people work together.

The OWASP Security Principles are licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license], so you can copy, distribute and transmit the work, and you can adapt it, and use it commercially, but all provided that you attribute the work and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.


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What is OWASP Security Principles Project?
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The end goal is to identify, cite, and document the fundamental principles of information security. Once this is well organised, I think it would be great to publish this through the OWASP Press. Of course, it will always remain freely available, and any money collected will go directly into the project to absorb costs with any remaining funds going to the OWASP Foundation.

This document should serve as a guide to technical architects and designers outlining the fundamental principles of security.

Presentation
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AppSec USA 2013

Project Leader
A project leader is the individual who decides to lead the project throughout its lifecycle. The project leader is responsible for communicating the project’s progress to the OWASP Foundation, and he/she is ultimately responsible for the project’s deliverables. The project leader must provide OWASP with his/her real name and contact e-mail address for his/her project application to be accepted, as OWASP prides itself on the openness of its products, operations, and members.


 * Dennis Groves

Related Projects
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 * OWASP_CISO_Survey

Openhub

 * OWASP Project Openhub


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Quick Download
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The home of the OWASP Security Principles is on GitHub. You are encourged to fork, edit and push your changes back to the project through git or edit the project directly on github.

However, if you like you may also download the master repository from the following links:
 * .zip file.
 * .tgz file.

News and Events
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 * [20 Nov 2013] News 2
 * [30 Sep 2013] News 1

In Print
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This project can be purchased as a print on demand book from Lulu.com

Classifications
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=FAQs=

Many projects have "Frequently Asked Questions" documents or pages. However, the point of such a document is not the questions. The point of a document like this are the answers. The document contains the answers that people would otherwise find themselves giving over and over again. The idea is that rather than laboriously compose and post the same answers repeatedly, people can refer to this page with pre-prepared answers. Use this space to communicate your projects 'Frequent Answers.'

How can I participate in your project?
All you have to do is make the Project Leader's aware of your available time to contribute to the project. It is also important to let the Leader's know how you would like to contribute and pitch in to help the project meet it's goals and milestones. There are many different ways you can contribute to an OWASP Project, but communication with the leads is key.

If I am not a programmer can I participate in your project?
Yes, you can certainly participate in the project if you are not a programmer or technical. The project needs different skills and expertise and different times during its development. Currently, we are looking for researchers, writers, graphic designers, and a project administrator.

= Acknowledgements =

Contributors
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The OWASP Security Principles project is developed by a worldwide team of volunteers. A live update of project contributors is found here.

The first contributors to the project were:


 * Dennis Groves
 * Andrew Martin
 * Josh Thomas
 * YOUR NAME BELONGS HERE

= Road Map and Getting Involved =

Makers, professionally or as hobbyists, are creating "Internet of Things" (IoT) devices using low power systems such as Arduino. Security is often an afterthought or not considered at all. This project will make it easy to secure communications and authenticate devices and users.

The key milestones are:

 * 1) Documented lightweight security framework and API
 * 2) Reference implementation for Arduino platform
 * 3) Client libraries and ports to other platforms

The key deliverables are

 * 1) Use cases
 * 2) Requirements
 * 3) API and data structures
 * 4) Arduino reference implementation and documentation
 * 5) Formal documentation
 * 6) Additional platform ports for both clients and servers

Using an AES library such as: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=88890.0 This project will put a communications protocol and medium agnostic encryption and authentication layer onto resource constrained devices such as the Arduino. It will do this via symmetric key encryption of the message payloads to ensure the authentication, integrity, and confidentiality of messages.

Roadmaps vary in detail from a broad outline to a fully detailed project charter. Generally speaking, projects with detailed roadmaps have tended to develop into successful projects. Some details that leaders may consider placing in the roadmap include: envisioned milestones, planned feature enhancements, essential conditions, project assumptions, development timelines, etc. You are required to have at least 4 milestones for every year the project is active. Involvement in the development and promotion of the OWASP TASC Framework Project is actively encouraged! You do not have to be a security expert in order to contribute. Some of the ways you can help:
 * Core framework developer
 * Framework functional testing
 * Framework penetration testing
 * Helping alpha and beta testing the framework on different hardware:
 * Sharing example code
 * Creating "How to" articles and videos
 * Providing feedback
 * Project administration support.
 * Publicity and awareness / advocacy