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Prevention of DoS and Memory Exhaustion Attacks: Key Distribution with Confidentiality and Authentication

by Paridhi Singhal, Manoj Diwakar, Mandeep Katre
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 58 - Number 16
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Paridhi Singhal, Manoj Diwakar, Mandeep Katre
10.5120/9365-3812

Paridhi Singhal, Manoj Diwakar, Mandeep Katre . Prevention of DoS and Memory Exhaustion Attacks: Key Distribution with Confidentiality and Authentication. International Journal of Computer Applications. 58, 16 ( November 2012), 16-20. DOI=10.5120/9365-3812

@article{ 10.5120/9365-3812,
author = { Paridhi Singhal, Manoj Diwakar, Mandeep Katre },
title = { Prevention of DoS and Memory Exhaustion Attacks: Key Distribution with Confidentiality and Authentication },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { November 2012 },
volume = { 58 },
number = { 16 },
month = { November },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 16-20 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume58/number16/9365-3812/ },
doi = { 10.5120/9365-3812 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Paridhi Singhal
%A Manoj Diwakar
%A Mandeep Katre
%T Prevention of DoS and Memory Exhaustion Attacks: Key Distribution with Confidentiality and Authentication
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 58
%N 16
%P 16-20
%D 2012
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Now a day’s most of the organizations are moving from wire-connected LAN to wireless LAN. The popularity of the 802.11 network standards stems from the fact that they provide for wireless connections with simplicity and convenience. But, there are many security issues which have been identified in the operation of 802.11 networks, and the 802.11i protocol has been announced to protect these types of networks. 802.11i protocol security has with a focus on an active attack and a passive attack. These types of attacks exhaust the client’s memory using a vulnerability of the key derivation procedure in 802.11i. It is vulnerable to various active and passive attacks which include de-authentication and disassociation attacks. For active and passive attacks( denial of services and memory exhaustion ) which are possible in 4-way handshake, this paper provides a secret key distribution with confidentiality and authentication and can also say that this procedure of secret key distribution is free from these active and passive attacks in comparison to original protocol and is more secure.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Secret key distribution 4-Way Handshake De- authentication active Attacks passive attack IEEE802.11 IEEE802.11i public key private key