Title :
ES-ARP: An efficient and secure Address Resolution Protocol
Author :
Ataullah, Md ; Chauhan, Naveen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Hamirpur, India
Abstract :
The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is used by computers to map logical addresses (IP) to physical addresses (MAC). However ARP is an all trusting protocol and is stateless which makes it vulnerable to many ARP cache poisoning attacks such as Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) and Denial of service (DoS) attacks. These flaws result in security breaches thus weakening the appeal of the host for exchange of sensitive data. There have been several solutions, proposed to solve this problem. We have analyzed that no solution offers a feasible solution. Hence, this paper presents an efficient and secure version of ARP that is able to cope up with all these types of attacks and is also a feasible solution. It is a stateful protocol, by storing the information of the Request frame in the ARP cache, to reduce the chances of various types of attacks in ARP. It is more efficient and secure by broadcasting ARP Reply frame in the network and storing related entries in the ARP cache each time when communication take place.
Keywords :
computer network security; local area networks; protocols; ARP cache poisoning attacks; DoS; ES-ARP; IP; LAN; MAC; MITM; denial of service; efficient address resolution protocol; local area network; man-in-the-middle; map logical addresses; map physical addresses; secure address resolution protocol; trusting protocol; Broadcasting; Computer crime; IP networks; Media Access Protocol; Switches; ARP cache poisoning; DoS; MITM;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science (SCEECS), 2012 IEEE Students' Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bhopal
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1516-6
DOI :
10.1109/SCEECS.2012.6184794
