Secure Transport Protocols for DDoS Attack Resistant Communication

Ghavidel, A. Z. and Issac, Biju (2007) Secure Transport Protocols for DDoS Attack Resistant Communication. In: SCORED 2007 - 5th Student Conference on Research and Development, 11th - 12th December 2007, Selangor, Malaysia.

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Abstract

A technical solution has been proposed in this paper to secure transport protocol communication in the case of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. The recent papers about DDoS attacks, especially the amplification attack looks for abnormal transaction that signals and eventually reports them. These methods may generate false positives or negatives and in turn can be quite dismal in its performance, in the wake of a real DDoS attack. This paper suggests a symmetric key exchange and hiding of a secret code in the UDP (User Datagram Protocol) packets. Any packet that has the secret code missing would be rejected. At first, the secure UDP protocol will be discussed and later, a similar method for the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) will be discussed. Finally the performance analysis is done to compare the overhead incurred.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Network security attacks, Packet analysis, Steganography, SYN flooding, UDP attacks
Subjects:	G400 Computer Science
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	18 Feb 2019 17:53
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 23:33
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/38098

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