Hop Integrity in the Internet

• Main Authors: Huang, Chin-Tser (Author), Gouda, Mohamed G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Advances in Information Security, 21
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer organization.; Computer communication systems.; Data structures (Computer science).; Data encryption (Computer science).; Coding theory.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Data Encryption.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Coding and Information Theory.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

Hop Integrity in the Internet introduces a new security defense, hop integrity, that can be used against denial-of-service attacks in the Internet. Hop integrity ensures that if a message, that is part of a denial-of-service attack, is originated by an adversarial host in the Internet and if the mes...

Table of Contents:

• Abstract Protocol Notation
• Abstract Secure Protocols
• Denial-of-Service Attacks
• Secure Address Resolution Protocol
• Weak Hop Integrity Protocol
• Strong Hop Integrity Using Soft Sequence Numbers
• Strong Hop Integrity Using Hard Sequence Numbers
• Implementation Considerations
• Other Uses of Hop Integrity.