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A more secure IPv6 neighborhood process

Networking and Internet Architecture 2020-05-01 v1

Abstract

The process of neighborhood establishment in an IPv6 network is made out through the NDP (Neighbor Discovery Protocol). Using ICMPv6 messages (NS - Neighbor Solicitation and NA - Neighbor Advertisement) which contains the IP address to be resolved, is exposed during the exchange of messages, making communication vulnerable to various types of attacks. This paper presents a proposal for a safer neighborhood establishment using the DH and HMAC algorithms. Experiments were performed in virtualized environments with the objective of analyzing the efficiency of the modification proposed in the NDP.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2004.14993,
  title  = {A more secure IPv6 neighborhood process},
  author = {Camilla Jacome and Michael Monteiro and Miguel Cabral and Pedro Carvalho and Leandro Almeida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.14993},
  year   = {2020}
}
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