Core Communication Library

This repository holds the firmware libraries used for the communication between the Spark Core and the Cloud service.

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SECURITY OVERVIEW

• RSA encrypt initial handshake message to cloud
• Decrypt return message from Cloud with an RSA private key on the Core
• Verify HMAC signature
• If everything checks out, AES-128-CBC session key is saved and IV is rotated with every message exchanged
  • encrypt
  • decrypt

CREDITS AND ATTRIBUTIONS

The Spark application team: Zachary Crockett, Satish Nair, Zach Supalla, David Middlecamp and Mohit Bhoite.

The core-communication-lib uses the GNU GCC toolchain for ARM Cortex-M processors and XySSL/TropicSSL libraries.

LICENSE

Unless stated elsewhere, file headers or otherwise, the license as stated in the LICENSE file.

CONTRIBUTE

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VERSION HISTORY

Latest Version: v1.0.0