A Multisecret Value Access Control Framework for Airliner in Multinational Air Traffic Management

When been threatened by hijacking or suicide-bypilots, the airliner may either crash itself or be shot down due to the potential of the suicide attack. There exist some solutions that allow air traffic controllers or federal agents to take over pilots' authority in the emergency. Though rarely, an air traffic controller may abuse this privilege to mishandle airliners that leads to catastrophic events. In this paper, to mitigate such risks, we propose a multisecret value access control framework based on new designed and existing cryptographic techniques such as XOR-based secret sharing schemes (SSSs). It not only satisfies the efficiency requirement but also assures that each nation owns a unique secret value. We further develop and implement the XOR-based SSS on Linux system. Both experimental results and performance evaluation demonstrate that our solution is not only efficient and bust also secure by design for the multinational air traffic management.