Research Article
Short Paper: Schemes for Enhancing the Denial-of-Service Tolerance of SRTP
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/SECURECOMM.2005.48, author={S. Garg and N. Singh and T. Tsai}, title={Short Paper: Schemes for Enhancing the Denial-of-Service Tolerance of SRTP}, proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={SECURECOMM}, year={2006}, month={3}, keywords={}, doi={10.1109/SECURECOMM.2005.48} }- S. Garg
N. Singh
T. Tsai
Year: 2006
Short Paper: Schemes for Enhancing the Denial-of-Service Tolerance of SRTP
SECURECOMM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SECURECOMM.2005.48
Abstract
Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) provides confidentiality, authentication, integrity and replay protection for secure media transport in VoIP. However, the overhead of HMAC-SHA1 incurred per packet makes SRTP susceptible to flooding based Denial-of-Service attack. In this paper, we present a class of schemes to increase the DoS tolerance in SRTP. The central idea is to add a light-weight authentication mechanism on top of SRTP. This mechanism is used to efficiently discard illegitimate packets early on in the face of a DoS attack. Analysis shows that substantially larger traffic flood can be handled with the proposed enhancements.
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