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Security Discussion and Robustness to DoS

 

Our original paper did not address denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on TESLA. In an IP multicast environment, however, DoS is a considerable threat and requires careful consideration. We discuss potential security problems in this section and show how to strengthen TESLA to thwart them. In particular, we show that there is no DoS attack on the sender if the receivers perform indirect time synchronization. In case of direct time synchronization, we show how to mitigate DoS attacks on the sender. Although there are some potential DoS attacks on the receiver side, we show that TESLA does not add any additional vulnerability to DoS attacks if the receiver has a reasonable amount of buffer space, otherwise we describe schemes that alleviate the exposure to DoS.




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Adrian Perrig
Sun Nov 5 19:29:44 PST 2000