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Securing the Control-plane Channel and Cache of Pull-based ID/LOC Protocols

Networking and Internet Architecture 2018-03-26 v1

Abstract

Pull-based ID/LOC split protocols, such as LISP (RFC6830), retrieve mappings from a mapping system to encapsulate and forward packets. This is done by means of a control-plane channel. In this short paper we describe three attacks against this channel (Denial-of-Service and overflowing) as well as the against the local cache used to store such mappings. We also provide a solution against such attacks that implements a per-source rate-limiter using a Count-Min Sketch data-structure.

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@article{arxiv.1803.08568,
  title  = {Securing the Control-plane Channel and Cache of Pull-based ID/LOC Protocols},
  author = {Paul Almasan and Jordi Paillisse and Alberto Rodriguez-Natal and Pere Barlet-Ros and Florin Coras and Vina Ermagan and Fabio Maino and Albert Cabellos-Aparicio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.08568},
  year   = {2018}
}
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