Denial-of-service attacks are one of the most severe challenges confronting the online world. This ground-breaking volume discusses a new method of countering denial-of-service attacks called hop integrity. It details a suite of protocols for providing hop integrity. In particular, each protocol in this suite is specified and verified using an abstract and formal notation, called the Secure Protocol Notation. In addition, the book presents an alternative way to achieve strong hop integrity with hard sequence numbers.

Detailed discussion of protocols for providing hop integrity in the Internet Each protocol is specified and verified using an abstract and formal notation called the Secure Protocol Notation Presents an alternative way to achieve strong hop integrity with hard sequence numbers Benefits of hop integrity extend to secure routing, mobile IP, and IP multicast Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Mohamed G. Gouda, PhD, is the Mike A. Meyers Centennial Professor in Computing Science at the University of Texas at Austin and a leading researcher in distributed and concurrent computing. His research interests include abstraction, nondeterminism, atomicity, convergence, stability, formality, correctness, and efficiency.

Inhalt
Abstract Protocol Notation.- Abstract Secure Protocols.- Denial-of-Service Attacks.- Secure Address Resolution Protocol.- Weak Hop Integrity Protocol.- Strong Hop Integrity Using Soft Sequence Numbers.- Strong Hop Integrity Using Hard Sequence Numbers.- Implementation Considerations.- Other Uses of Hop Integrity.