Secure unicast address resolution protocol (S-UARP) by extending DHCP

Author

Issac, Biju ; Mohammed, Lawan A.

Author_Institution

Inf. Security Res. Lab, Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Sarawak, Malaysia

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2005

Abstract

In IPv4 networks, address resolution protocol (ARP) is used when a source computer wants to find the MAC address corresponding to a particular IP address (of target computer), it wants to contact. The source broadcasts this request and all the hosts in the domain get that request. This broadcast helps the target to reply with the necessary details to the source. The IP-MAC mapping would then be stored in the ARP cache of the source, which remains valid for some time. This broadcasting is a decentralized way to get the IP address to MAC address mapping, which brings in consistent overhead to the network traffic. It is well documented that ARP process is also liable to ARP poisoning attacks. In this paper we seek to propose a secure unicast address resolution protocol (SUARP) which takes a centralized approach that reduces the broadcast overhead and makes ARP poisoning attacks difficult.

Keywords

access protocols; local area networks; security of data; ARP cache; IPv4 networks; MAC address; network traffic; unicast address resolution protocol; Broadcasting; Computer networks; Data security; Hardware; Information security; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Telecommunication traffic; Unicast; Address Resolution Protocol; IP address; MAC address and security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2005. Jointly held with the 2005 IEEE 7th Malaysia International Conference on Communication., 2005 13th IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1531-2216

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0000-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2005.1635503

Filename

1635503