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2004 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Effects of Mobility and Multihoming on Transport-Protocol Security
Berkeley, California
May 09-May 12
ISBN: 0-7695-2136-3
Tuomas Aura, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Pekka Nikander, Ericsson Research, Jorvas, Finland
Gonzalo Camarillo, Ericsson Research, Jorvas, Finland
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable message-based transport protocol developed by the IETF that could replace TCP in some applications. SCTP allows endpoints to have multiple IP addresses for the purposes of fault tolerance. There is on-going work to extend the SCTP multihoming functions to support dynamic addressing and endpoint mobility. This paper explains how the multihoming and mobility features can be exploited for denial-of-service attacks, connection hijacking, and packet flooding. We propose implementation guidelines for SCTP and changes to the mobility extensions that prevent most of the attacks. The same lessons apply to multihomed TCP variants and other transport-layer protocols that incorporate some flavor of dynamic addressing.
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Tuomas Aura, Pekka Nikander, Gonzalo Camarillo, "Effects of Mobility and Multihoming on Transport-Protocol Security," sp, pp.12, 2004 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2004
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