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On Detecting Pollution Attacks in Inter-Session Network Coding

Networking and Internet Architecture 2011-08-02 v1 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

Dealing with pollution attacks in inter-session network coding is challenging due to the fact that sources, in addition to intermediate nodes, can be malicious. In this work, we precisely define corrupted packets in inter-session pollution based on the commitment of the source packets. We then propose three detection schemes: one hash-based and two MAC-based schemes: InterMacCPK and SpaceMacPM. InterMacCPK is the first multi-source homomorphic MAC scheme that supports multiple keys. Both MAC schemes can replace traditional MACs, e.g., HMAC, in networks that employ inter-session coding. All three schemes provide in-network detection, are collusion-resistant, and have very low online bandwidth and computation overhead.

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@article{arxiv.1108.0377,
  title  = {On Detecting Pollution Attacks in Inter-Session Network Coding},
  author = {Anh Le and Athina Markopoulou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.0377},
  year   = {2011}
}
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