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Cryptographic Salt: A Countermeasure Against Denial-of-Service Attacks

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Overview Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is one of the most malicious Internet-based attacks. Introduction of cryptographic authentication protocols into Internet environment does not help alleviate the impact of denial-of-service attacks, but rather increases the vulnerability to the attack because of the heavy computation associated with cryptographic operation. Nevertheless, many Internet security protocols including SSL/TLS protocol do not consider this aspect. The paper considers this overlooked issue in authentication protocol design, and propose an effective countermeasure applicable to authentication protocols like SSL/TLS protocol which adopt public-key based encryption to authenticate the server to the client.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Queensland University of Technology	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2002
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, SSL - TLS, Denial of Service

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