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Co-authored-by: Kaspar Schleiser <[email protected]>
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chrysn and kaspar030 authored Oct 24, 2024
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or if there is an implied security mechanism for the origin.


[^whatsinarequest]: These components required for a request are not documented as such in the CoAP RFCs,
[^whatsinarequest]: The components required for a request are not documented as such in the CoAP RFCs,
but it is the author's opinion that they are a factual requirement:
Implementations may implicitly make decisions on those,
but the decisions are still made.
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## Security

The CoAP stack is configured with server and client policies.
The security mechansims used depend on those selected in the policies.
The security mechanisms used depend on those selected in the policies.

At this stage, RIOT-rs uses three pieces of security components:
OSCORE (for symmetric encryption), EDHOC (for key exchange) and ACE (for authentication).
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is to allow unauthenticated access everywhere.
For example, this may make sense on a link layer with tight access control.
The components also have internal dependencies:
EDHOC can only practically be used in connection with OSCORE;
EDHOC can only practically be used in combination with OSCORE;
ACE depends on either depending on the profiles used.

#### Symmetric encryption: OSCORE
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