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A DoS Attack Against the Integrity-Less ESP (IPSec)

Authors:
Ventzislav Nikov
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/370
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Abstract: This paper describes a new practical DoS attack that can be mounted against the ``encryption-only'' configuration (i.e. without authenticated integrity) of ESP as allowed by IPSec. This finding can serve as a strong argument to convince those in charge of the IPSec standardization to improve it by banning the ``encryption-only'' configuration from the standard.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2006-21861,
  title={A DoS Attack Against the Integrity-Less ESP (IPSec)},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={applications / IPSec (ESP) Standard, Denial of Service Attack},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/370},
  note={An extended version of the paper presented at SECRYPT 2006 venci.nikov@gmail.com 13447 received 26 Oct 2006},
  author={Ventzislav Nikov},
  year=2006
}