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...
— 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...
— 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...
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...
—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...