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The Precision Time Protocol (PTP), standardized as IEEE 1588, provides sub-microsecond synchronization across distributed systems and underpins critical infrastructure in telecommunications, finance, power systems, and industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Muhammad Abdullah Soomro , Fatima Muhammad Anwar

Distributed network of the computer and the design defects of the TCP protocol are given to the network attack to be multiplicative. Based on the simple and open assumptions of the TCP protocol in academic and collaborative communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Minghan Chen , Fangyan Dai , Bingjie Yan , Jieren Cheng , Longjuan Wang

Operating Systems enforce logical isolation using abstractions such as processes, containers, and isolation technologies to protect a system from malicious or buggy code. In this paper, we show new types of side channels through the file…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Cheng Gu , Yicheng Zhang , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has been profusely used by most of internet applications. Since 1970s, several TCP variants have been developed in order to cope with the fast increasing of network capacities especially in high Bandwidth…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Mohamed A. Alrshah , Mohamed Othman , Borhanuddin Ali , Zurina Mohd Hanapia

This paper addresses the problem of robust clock phase offset estimation for the IEEE 1588 precision time protocol (PTP) in the presence of delay attacks. Delay attacks are one of the most effective cyber attacks in PTP, as they cannot be…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-17 Anantha K. Karthik , Rick S. Blum

With the goal of improving the security of Internet protocols, we seek faster, semi-automatic methods to discover new vulnerabilities in protocols such as DNS, BGP, and others. To this end, we introduce the LLM-Assisted Protocol Attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 R. Can Aygun , Yehuda Afek , Anat Bremler-Barr , Leonard Kleinrock

EIP-7702 introduces a delegation-based authorization mechanism that allows an externally owned account (EOA) to authenticate a single authorization tuple, after which all subsequent calls are routed to arbitrary delegate code. We show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Minfeng Qi , Qin Wang , Ruiqiang Li , Tianqing Zhu , Shiping Chen

Low-rate application layer distributed denial of service (LDDoS) attacks are both powerful and stealthy. They force vulnerable webservers to open all available connections to the adversary, denying resources to real users. Mitigation advice…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Michael Siracusano , Stavros Shiaeles , Bogdan Ghita

We describe a new class of packet injection attacks called Man-on-the-Side Attacks (MotS), previously only seen where state actors have "compromised" a number of telecommunication companies. MotS injection attacks have not been widely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Peter Maynard , Kieran McLaughlin

Most end devices are now equipped with multiple network interfaces. Applications can exploit all available interfaces and benefit from multipath transmission. Recently Multipath TCP (MPTCP) was proposed to implement multipath transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Liyang Sun , Guibin Tian , Guanyu Zhu , Yong Liu , Hang Shi , David Dai

IP spoofing enables reflection and amplification attacks, which cause major threats to the current Internet infrastructure. Detecting IP packets with incorrect source addresses would help to improve the situation. This is easy at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jasper Eumann , Raphael Hiesgen , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

BGP prefix hijacking is a critical threat to the resilience and security of communications in the Internet. While several mechanisms have been proposed to prevent, detect or mitigate hijacking events, it has not been studied how to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Pavlos Sermpezis , Vasileios Kotronis , Konstantinos Arakadakis , Athena Vakali

The challenging number is used for the detection of Spoofing attack. The IP Spoofing is considered to be one of the potentially brutal attack which acts as a tool for the DDoS attack which is considered to be a major threat among security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-10-11 L. Kavisankar , C. Chellappan

The vulnerability of the Internet has been demonstrated by prominent IP prefix hijacking events. Major outages such as the China Telecom incident in 2010 stimulate speculations about malicious intentions behind such anomalies. Surprisingly,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Johann Schlamp , Josef Gustafsson , Matthias Wählisch , Thomas C. Schmidt , Georg Carle

Despite encryption, the packet size is still visible, enabling observers to infer private information in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g., IoT device identification). Packet padding obfuscates packet-length characteristics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Mnassar Alyami , Abdulmajeed Alghamdi , Mohammed Alkhowaiter , Cliff Zou , Yan Solihin

Internet resources form the basic fabric of the digital society. They provide the fundamental platform for digital services and assets, e.g., for critical infrastructures, financial services, government. Whoever controls that fabric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Tianxiang Dai , Philipp Jeitner , Haya Shulman , Michael Waidner

The last level cache is vulnerable to timing based side channel attacks because it is shared by the attacker and the victim processes even if they are located on different cores. These timing attacks evict the victim cache lines using small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Kartik Ramkrishnan , Antonia Zhai , Stephen McCamant , Pen Chung Yew

The scarcity of data and the high complexity of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) attacks have created challenges in comprehending their behavior and hindered the exploration of effective detection techniques. To create an effective APT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Almuthanna Alageel , Sergio Maffeis , Imperial College London

We quantify the threat of network adversaries to inducing \emph{network overload} through \emph{routing attacks}, where a subset of network nodes are hijacked by an adversary. We develop routing attacks on the hijacked nodes for two…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xinyu Wu , Eytan Modiano

This paper presents Packet Chasing, an attack on the network that does not require access to the network, and works regardless of the privilege level of the process receiving the packets. A spy process can easily probe and discover the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Mohammadkazem Taram , Ashish Venkat , Dean Tullsen