Tobias Buchberger

Researcher, Competence Centre for IT-Security, FH Campus Wien, "CoMatrix - How to overcome kernel panic, deal with buffer limitations and LOL at random"

Title:

CoMatrix – How to overcome kernel panic, deal with buffer limitations and LOL at random

Biography:

Tobias Buchberger is a researcher at the Competence Centre for IT-Security at FH Campus Wien, where he also pursued his IT security studies. Before joining FH Campus Wien, he was working as an IT security analyst at a Viennese-based company for several years.

Abstract:

We will present our prototype implementation of the CoMatrix project, which enables the usage of the Matrix protocol for constrained IoT devices via CoAP and CBOR in a constrained network (e.g. a 802.15.4/6LoWPAN network). A CoMatrix gateway, which acts as a CoAP-HTTP forward proxy, was implemented based on the Python library aiocoap, and is running on a Raspberry Pi, which was extended with a 802.15.4 radio module. On the client side we use RIOT-OS on a SAMR21-xpro board and implemented an external CoMatrix library module based on gcoap and nanocoap. We like to share our experiences during the implementation and discuss some problems we faced, e.g.: Everything but Random – randomization of gcoap token on reset; Still not able to talk in secret – DTLS, OSCORE or openthread? Furthermore, we will give a short demo of two IoT use case applications: First the “CoMatrix chat” to show our current state of the client library functions. The latter is a temperature sensor application, which continuously sends temperature values into a Matrix room.

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