Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks are a major concern for modern distributed applications. They exploit weakness in the software in order to make it unavailable to well-behaved user...
HIPs, or Human Interactive Proofs, are challenges meant to be easily solved by humans, while remaining too hard to be economically solved by computers. HIPs are increasingly used ...
Kumar Chellapilla, Kevin Larson, Patrice Y. Simard...
As sensors in a network are mostly homogeneous in software and hardware, a captured sensor can easily expose its code and data to attackers and further threaten the whole network....
Universal Re-encryption allows El-Gamal ciphertexts to be re-encrypted without knowledge of their corresponding public keys. This has made it an enticing building block for anonymo...
— In this paper, we present a distributed computing framework designed to support higher quality of service and fault tolerance for processing deadline-driven tasks in a P2P envi...