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Stateless connections

Tuomas Aura, Pekka Nikander
Helsinki University of Technology, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland

Abstract

We describe a secure transformation of stateful connections or parts of them into stateless ones by attaching the state information to the messages. Secret-key cryptography is used for protection of integrity and confidentiality of the state data and the connections. The stateless protocols created in this way are more robust against denial of service resulting from high loads and resource exhausting attacks than their stateful counterparts. In particular, stateless authentication resists attacks that leave connections in a half-open state.

Full paper in Postscript


@InProceedings{AurNik97b,
  author = 	 {Tuomas Aura and Pekka Nikander},
  title = 	 {Stateless connections},
  booktitle = 	 "Proc. International Conference on Information
                  and Communications Security ICICS'97",
  volume =	 {1334},
  pages =        "87--97",
  year =	 1997,
  series =       {LNCS},
  publisher =	 {Springer Verlag},
  month =	 nov
}