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http://dx.doi.org/10.5302/J.ICROS.2014.13.9009

Secured Search and Rescue Signal using COSPAS-SARSAT  

Baek, Yoojin (Dept. of Information Security, Woosuk University)
Cho, Taenam (Dept. of Information Security, Woosuk University)
Kim, Jaehyun (Satellite & Wireless Convergence Research Department, Electronic Telecommunications Research Institute)
Lee, Sanguk (Satellite & Wireless Convergence Research Department, Electronic Telecommunications Research Institute)
Ahn, Woo-Geun (The 3rd R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development)
Publication Information
Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems / v.20, no.2, 2014 , pp. 157-162 More about this Journal
Abstract
The international COSPAS-SARSAT program is a satellite-based search and rescue distress alert detection and information distribution system and best known as the system that detects and locates emergency beacons activated by aircraft, ships and so on. However, the current message format of the system is not encrypted so that, if the rescue signal can be intercepted by the unintended receivers, the subsequent rescue activities can be handled in a hostile environment. So, this article concerns how to deal with the rescue signals in a secure way and proposes some adequate encryption methods and the corresponding key management.
Keywords
COSPAS-SARSAT; search and rescue signal; satellite; encryption; authentication;
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