Toward Privacy-Preserving Interdomain Configuration Verification via Multi-Party Computation

Abstract

Interdomain network configuration errors can lead to disastrous financial and social consequences. Although substantial progress has been made in using formal methods to verify whether network configurations conform to certain properties, current tools focus on a single network. The fundamental challenge of configuration verification in an interdomain network is privacy, because each autonomous system (AS) treats its network configuration files as private information and is not willing to share it with others. In this paper, we take a first step toward interdomain network configuration verification and propose InCV, a privacy-preserving interdomain configuration verification system based on data-oblivious computation. Given an interdomain network, InCV allows ASes to collaboratively simulate the running of the network and verify the resulting interdomain routing information base (RIB) without revealing their network configurations to any party. Preliminary evaluation using real-world topologies and synthetic network configurations shows that InCV can verify an interdomain network of 32 ASes within ∼ 52 minutes with reasonable overhead.