Availability is a critical issue in modern distributed systems. While many techniques and protocols for preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks have been proposed and deployed ...
We present the first group signature scheme with provable security and signature size O(λ) bits where the group manager, the group members, and the Open Authority (OA) are all id...
We present a game-theoretic model of the interactions between server and clients in a constrained family of commercial P2P computations (where clients are financially compensated...
Matthew Yurkewych, Brian Neil Levine, Arnold L. Ro...
We propose a type and effect system for authentication protocols built upon a tagging scheme that formalizes the intended semantics of ciphertexts. The main result is that the val...
d Abstract) XiaoFeng Wang∗ Michael K. Reiter† We present congestion puzzles (CP), a new countermeasure to bandwidth-exhaustion attacks. Like other defenses based on client puz...