Distributing network identity to mitigate denial-of-service attacks

The CONTRA. Camouflage of Network Traffic to Resist Attacks, project was carried out by Draper Laboratory to provide a defense mechanism against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to both prevent DDoS attacks and mitigate their effects. This Masters project looks at the CONTRA system and assesses its effectiveness. The goal of this project is to explore whether the techniques employed by CONTRA-nalnely IP dispersion. redundancy, and traffic masking, can effectively mitigate the effects of a DDoS attack. The analysis provides a set of recommendations for operating the CONTRA system to impede an outside attacker.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Naresh, Pallavi

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• William Weinstein and Howie Shrobe.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36770

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/36770