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CCS
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Mitigating bandwidth-exhaustion attacks using congestion puzzles
d Abstract) XiaoFeng Wang∗ Michael K. Reiter† We present congestion puzzles (CP), a new countermeasure to bandwidth-exhaustion attacks. Like other defenses based on client puz...
XiaoFeng Wang, Michael K. Reiter
ICCCN
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Proactive Test Based Differentiation Technique to Mitigate Low Rate DoS Attacks
— Low rate DoS attacks are emerging threats to the TCP traffic, and the VoIP traffic in the Internet. They are hard to detect as they intelligently send attack traffic inside the...
Amey Shevtekar, Nirwan Ansari
ICC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using Client Puzzles to Mitigate Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in the Tor Anonymous Routing Environment
— A novel client puzzle protocol, the Memoryless Puzzle Protocol (MPP), is proposed and investigated. The goal is to show that MPP is a viable solution for mitigating distributed...
Nicholas A. Fraser, Douglas J. Kelly, Richard A. R...
CRYPTO
2006
Springer
124views Cryptology» more  CRYPTO 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Mitigating Dictionary Attacks on Password-Protected Local Storage
We address the issue of encrypting data in local storage using a key that is derived from the user's password. The typical solution in use today is to derive the key from the...
Ran Canetti, Shai Halevi, Michael Steiner
ARESEC
2011
117views more  ARESEC 2011»
12 years 5 months ago
Non-Parallelizable and Non-Interactive Client Puzzles from Modular Square Roots
—Denial of Service (DoS) attacks aiming to exhaust the resources of a server by overwhelming it with bogus requests have become a serious threat. Especially protocols that rely o...
Yves Igor Jerschow, Martin Mauve