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Packet Leashes: A Defense Against Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Networks
Overview As mobile ad hoc network applications are deployed, security emerges as a central requirement. This paper introduces the wormhole attack, a severe attack in ad hoc networks that is particularly challenging to defend against. The wormhole attack is possible even if the attacker has not compromised any hosts and even if all communication provides authenticity and confidentiality. In the wormhole attack, an attacker records packets (or bits) at one location in the network, tunnels them (possibly selectively) to another location, and retransmits them there into the network. The wormhole attack can form a serious threat in wireless networks, especially against many ad hoc network routing protocols and location-based wireless security systems.
| Publisher | Carnegie Mellon University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | July 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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