Resource-depletion attacks against IEEE 802.11 access points (APs) are commonly executed by flooding APs with fake authentication requests. Such attacks may exhaust an AP’s memor...
Ivan Martinovic, Frank A. Zdarsky, Matthias Wilhel...
Abstract— Client puzzles have been proposed in a number of protocols as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In order to provid...
— 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...
Computational puzzles are mildly difficult computational problems that require resources (processor cycles, memory, or both) to solve. Puzzles have found a variety of uses in secu...
Liqun Chen, Paul Morrissey, Nigel P. Smart, Bogdan...