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Title | ||
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Timestamp utilization in Trust-ND mechanism for securing Neighbor Discovery Protocol. |
Abstract | ||
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Trust-ND is an alternative lightweight security mechanism based on distributed trust management model to secure IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol. Trust-ND introduced a new NDP option, called Trust option, with three fields: Message Generation Time (or timestamp), Nonce, and Message Authentication Data. A thorough investigation and analysis of the use of timestamp field has identified four scenarios which could result in Denial-of-Service (DoS) as well as a source of inefficiency. DoS is triggered when two or more IPv6 nodes in the same link have unsynchronized clocks with large time difference between them due to the use of local clock, attack on the synchronization mechanism, misconfiguration or faulty clock. DoS could also occurs as the result of faulty validation process caused by the inability of the timestamp to capture and represent two distinct messaging events due to insufficient granularity or lack of precision of the timestamp format. This paper presents measures to overcome the issue of DoS by proposing a change to the reference time to use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); modification to the Trust-ND validation process to solve the problem of unsynchronized clocks among nodes; and a new timestamp format to increase the precision to correctly represent and distinguish two events occurring in less than hundredths of a second. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2016 | 2016 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON PRIVACY, SECURITY AND TRUST (PST) | Distributed trust management,IPv6 security,neighbor discovery protocol |
Field | DocType | ISSN |
IPv6,Timestamp-based concurrency control,Synchronization,Message authentication code,Computer science,Computer security,Coordinated Universal Time,Timestamp,Neighbor Discovery Protocol,Cryptographic nonce,Distributed computing | Conference | 1712-364X |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
Authors | ||
6 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iznan H. Hasbullah | 1 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Mohammad M. Kadhum | 2 | 3 | 1.74 |
| Yung-Wey Chong | 3 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Kamal Alieyan | 4 | 11 | 1.76 |
| Azlan Osman | 5 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Supriyanto | 6 | 0 | 0.34 |